Antarès #4

Two figures stand on an alien desert plain, facing a striking creature that resembles a horse yet bristles with a dramatic ridge of sharp spines along its back — the kind of quietly unsettling alien wildlife that makes Leo's science-fiction world-building so compelling. Part of the long-running Les Mondes d'Aldébaran cycle, this fourth episode of Antarès continues Leo's singular vision of interplanetary colonization, rendered entirely by his own hand from script to finished line. Published by Dargaud in 2011, it's a beautifully considered entry in one of Franco-Belgian comics' most ambitious science-fiction sagas.