De Wegen van Malefosse #2

The second volume of De Wegen van Malefosse arrives with a cover by François Dermaut that immediately signals high dramatic stakes: a lone blond figure, barefoot in the snow, staggers with head thrown back and a bloodied sword hanging from his hand, red streaks staining the white ground around him. Looming dark rock formations frame the scene against a pale winter sky, reinforcing the title "De Verloren Berg" — The Lost Mountain — with a real sense of cold, desolate peril. Dermaut's delicate watercolor linework gives the whole image an almost painterly intimacy that draws you straight into this 2012 Franco-Belgian historical adventure.