Badlands #2

The second volume of Corbeyran and Kowalski's Badlands arrives with one of the most striking covers of 2016 — a blue-haired gunslinger sinking helplessly through murky green water, her cowboy hat and revolver drifting away as a field of carved totem poles and Indigenous ceremonial masks loom across the submerged floor below her. Kowalski's cover work is genuinely arresting, blending Wild West imagery with something far more mythic and unsettling. Subtitled "Le danseur au grizzli," this volume promises a story where the frontier collides with something ancient and deeply strange.