Les Larmes de Fées #2

The second volume of this French fantasy series from Soleil carries the haunting subtitle La Complainte des Morigannes, and the cover sets a deeply atmospheric tone — a woman in a violet dress cradles a fallen companion wearing a crown of golden flame, both surrounded by the coiling, rust-red tentacles of some encroaching supernatural force. The work of Debois, AJA, and Lacroix brings a painterly elegance to this world where fairy-tale beauty and creeping menace feel genuinely inseparable. Published in 2008, this is the kind of European fantasy comics album that draws you in with its lush visual storytelling before you've even opened the cover.