Captain Swing et les pirates électriques de Cindery Island #[nn]

A crackling tall ship cuts through dark, electrified waters on this French edition's cover — an atmosphere of steam-age mystery rendered in brooding blues and blacks, with arcs of lightning illuminating the vessel against the night. Warren Ellis's seafaring, science-tinged adventure finds a worthy visual home here, with illustrator Raulo Caceres framing the central image in an elegant border of Victorian machinery and mechanical curiosities that sets the tone perfectly. Published by Bragelonne in 2012, this is a handsome edition of a story where the industrial age and the open sea collide in genuinely compelling fashion.