Axo #1

A striking opening to this French science-fiction series from Les Humanoïdes Associés, Axo #1: Nord-Sud announces itself with a cover that pulls you right into its amber-drenched atmosphere. A dark-haired figure plunges or soars through a turbulent orange sky, arms outstretched, while a smaller silhouette tumbles below and ominous craft loom overhead — writer Fred Le Berre and artists Francis Buche and Davide Turitti setting an immediately kinetic, vertigo-inducing tone. Published in 2006, this first volume promises the kind of sweeping, visually ambitious European comics storytelling that Les Humanoïdes Associés does so well.