L'Oeil était dans la tombe #[nn]

Christian De Metter's L'Oeil était dans la tombe from Casterman immediately signals something unsettling: a blood-spattered knife dominates the cover, its blade reflecting the pale, haunted face of a figure staring back at the viewer from within the steel itself. The murky, painterly background — all bruised greens and blacks — gives the image a suffocating, atmospheric dread entirely fitting for a 2008 graphic work with such a title (roughly "The Eye Was in the Tomb"). De Metter's cover art alone makes a compelling case that this is crime and darkness rendered with real artistic intent.