Metropolia #1

Set in Berlin 2099, this striking Dargaud album from Duval and Römling opens with an image that immediately signals its ambitions: a lone, statuesque figure seated on a sofa in a vast, eerily luminous room, its floor a fractured mosaic of vivid color beneath cool purple light and hanging mirrored spheres. The atmosphere is equal parts futuristic lounge and unsettling dream — somewhere between decadence and isolation. It's a beautifully composed introduction to what promises to be a bold vision of a far-future Berlin.