Médée #2

The second volume of Casterman's Médée series draws you in immediately with its haunting cover: a dark-haired young woman in classical dress cradles the head of a sacrificed ram, her hands and garments touched with blood against a rich golden background of ornamental patterns. Nancy Peña and Blandine Le Callet bring an intimate, melancholy gravity to this retelling of one of antiquity's most complex heroines, and the subtitle — Le Couteau dans la Plaie ("The Knife in the Wound") — signals that 2015's most emotionally charged mythological bande dessinée is deepening its exploration of Medea's world.