Empire USA #6

The sixth and final volume of Desberg and Recule's Empire USA arrives with a cover that sets an appropriately tense tone: a pale, long-haired man holding a pistol stands shoulder-to-shoulder with a dark-haired woman against a smoldering red sky, barbed wire cutting across the foreground and a distant cityscape looming behind them. It's a striking, cinematic image that captures the series' blend of danger and uneasy alliances. Dargaud's 2008 conclusion to this gripping French thriller promises a charged finale for readers who've followed the story from volume one.