Betelgeuze #5

The fifth and final chapter of Leo's *Betelgeuze* cycle arrives with a cover that immediately commands attention: a lone figure, waist-deep in dark water, reaches up toward an enormous creature whose massive jaws, glowing eye, and sleek mechanical-looking hull loom overhead in shades of deep teal and shadow. It's a striking image of vulnerability and strange communion — the human and "the other" face to face — rendered entirely by Leo, whose fluid linework and atmospheric color work are on full display. A fitting capstone to one of Belgian comics' most thoughtful science-fiction series, published by Dargaud in 2005.