Les Trois Grognards #3

A snowy battlefield sets the stage for this 2018 Casterman adventure, as three very different Napoleonic soldiers — a massive, barefoot brute, a composed dark-coated veteran, and a slender young officer — stand over a fallen comrade amid a wintry landscape. The subtitle Austerlitz sous le soleil promises a sharp historical backdrop for the trio's exploits, and the cover's muted palette punctuated by those vivid military coats gives the book an immediately appealing blend of humor and drama. Salsedo and Hautière deliver a look that feels both warmly comedic and genuinely grounded in the Napoleonic era.