Gaijin #2

The second volume of Blengino and Gallo's Gaijin series opens with a striking image: a young woman, her bare back covered in elaborate tattoos, stands silhouetted against a cityscape consumed by towering flames and billowing orange smoke. Subtitled Les Derniers Feux de l'Été ("The Last Fires of Summer"), this 2008 Delcourt release sets a mood of quiet defiance amid spectacular devastation — the contrast between her stillness and the inferno behind her is genuinely arresting. If this cover is any indication, Gallo's artwork brings both beauty and tension to this Franco-Belgian series set against a world on the edge.