L'Education des assassins #1

The opening volume of L'Éducation des Assassins arrives from Delcourt with a subtitled promise — Les Délices de l'Orcan — and a cover that immediately draws you into a densely atmospheric world. A group of children in medieval dress stand amid a teeming crowd of animals and figures, framed by gnarled, ancient trees that seem to close in around them like a living canopy. It's a richly detailed, almost fairytale-dark image that sets an intriguing tone for this 2008 French series about the making of assassins.