Lancaster #1

A striking opening chapter from writer Christophe Bec and artist JJ Dzialowski, this first volume of Lancaster sets an immediately atmospheric tone. The cover places a determined-looking man in a heavy fur-collared jacket alongside a fair-haired woman against a vast, ice-swept Arctic landscape — frozen terrain stretching to the horizon, with the faint outline of structures half-swallowed by the cold. "Les Portes de l'Arctique" (The Gates of the Arctic) promises a story rooted in isolation and the raw drama of the far north, and Glénat's 2013 release delivers that promise right from this beautifully rendered first look.