L'Ultime Chimère #7

The seventh chapter of Bollée and Griffo's L'Ultime Chimère arrives with a cover that commands attention: a bald, stern-faced figure numbered 1167 grips a heavy mallet in the foreground, while a massive spacecraft looms against a star-filled sky and a smaller mechanical vehicle — topped with a glowing spherical dome — occupies the middle ground. Titled Les Nuits, this 2011 Glénat volume carries the cool, layered tension that has defined the series, with Griffo's precise linework rendering both the human and the technological with equal weight. Fans of ambitious Franco-Belgian science fiction will find plenty to anticipate in this penultimate stretch of the saga.