Ella Mahé #3

The third volume of Maryse & Jean-François Charles and Brice Goepfert's elegant series brings Ella Mahé face to face with deeper mysteries, captured beautifully in a cover that contrasts her striking, close-up presence in the foreground with a robed, book-carrying figure standing in a warm, lantern-lit library doorway flanked by shelves of ancient tomes and a terrestrial globe. The subtitle — Celle qui n'a pas de nom ("She Who Has No Name") — lends the whole image a compelling air of hidden identity and secret knowledge. Published by Glénat in 2011, this is franco-Belgian storytelling at its most atmospheric and intriguing.