De Wegen van Malefosse #1

The opening volume of De Wegen van Malefosse arrives with a cover that immediately sets a mood of cold isolation — a dark-cloaked rider, wide-brimmed hat pulled low and a long weapon slung across the saddle, urges a pale horse through a snow-blanketed winter landscape of bare trees and distant rooftops. François Dermaut's pencils and inks render the scene in a striking near-monochrome palette, the deep blacks of rider and cloak contrasting beautifully against the white drifts, with a single dark feather resting in the foreground snow. "Het Escorte" promises a journey into a historical world where the road ahead looks every bit as treacherous as the season.