De Chair et d'Ecume #2

The second volume of De Chair et d'Écume — subtitled Les Yeux de l'Abîme — arrives from Dargaud with a cover that immediately commands attention: a towering, statuesque woman draped in flowing pink and gold robes dominates an abstract white architectural structure reaching into a pale blue sky, while smaller figures move at her feet. The contrast between her monumental presence and the enigmatic, Escher-like geometry around her gives the whole image a dreamlike, mythological weight. Published in 2012, this second chapter of the Wanderer series looks poised to deepen its fantastical world in genuinely compelling fashion.