Drakko #1

From the creative team of Mangin & Gajic comes this striking Belgian fantasy album, Drakko — "De dertiende horde." Aleksa Gajic's cover is an immediate statement: a colossal red dragon, wings spread wide against a blazing inferno, looms over an armored mechanical figure engulfed in flame, while a lone dark warrior in heavy black armor crouches in the foreground, watching the confrontation from below. The scale, the fire, and that brooding silhouette set a mood of grand mythological conflict that makes this 2013 opener genuinely hard to put down unread.