Caroline Baldwin #18

André Taymans places his sharp-eyed protagonist front and center in this eighteenth volume of the long-running Belgian series — Caroline Baldwin stands cool and armed beside a battered green tuk-tuk taxi, her relaxed summer outfit a deliberate contrast to the pistol in her hand. The Southeast Asian street-vehicle setting and the story title "Half-Blood" hint at an adventure that takes Caroline somewhere distinctly far from home. Taymans's clean ligne claire linework, rendered here entirely under his own hand from pencils to inks, gives the cover the kind of understated tension that has kept this series going strong into 2018.