Les Ombres du Styx #3

The third chapter of Isabelle Dethan's Les Ombres du Styx carries a quietly haunting weight, its subtitle In Memoriam perfectly matched by a cover set among ancient tombs and weathered monuments. Two figures — one in a blood-stained white tunic, weapon in hand, the other younger and watchful — stand amid the ruins, suggesting aftermath rather than action. Dethan's measured, atmospheric linework makes this 2014 Delcourt release feel like an elegiac pause in a story steeped in antiquity and consequence.