Haute sécurité #6

The concluding volume of Cycle 3's "L'Ombre d'Ezekiel" arrives with a cover that sets a tense, institutional mood: a close-cropped, steely-eyed man dominates the foreground while a phalanx of uniformed prison guards stands in formation behind him, a rounded correctional facility looming in the background. Gihef and Callède's prison drama earns its title — Haute Sécurité — with every carefully composed detail here, from the guards' wary expressions to the oppressive architecture overhead. Dupuis closes out this 2010 two-parter with a cover that promises the kind of slow-burn tension fans of the series have come to expect.