Cœur Brûlé #2

The second volume of Cothias and Dethorey's Cœur Brûlé carries the subtitle La Petite Guerre, and this striking Glénat cover sets the mood perfectly — a fleet of decorated birchbark canoes gliding across dark water by torchlight, a bird of prey wheeling overhead in the twilight sky. In the lead canoe, a white-haired elder in fringed buckskin raises a blazing torch while a younger companion paddles, their vessel's prow adorned with vivid painted symbols; behind them, more torch-bearing figures follow in the flickering procession. It's a beautifully atmospheric image that captures the tension and drama promised by the title's evocation of guerrilla conflict in this 1992 French-language adventure.