D-Day #1

The cover of this 2008 Glénat album plunges you straight into the chaos of Operation Overlord — a tight, urgent composition of helmeted Allied soldiers crowded together, rifles raised, expressions locked somewhere between raw fear and fierce determination, with landing craft and a smoke-filled shoreline visible in the churning background. Godard and Marschall waste no time establishing the brutal, ground-level perspective that defines this first volume, subtitled Overlord. It's an immediate, visceral opening to what promises to be a gripping French bande dessinée account of the Normandy landings.