Papeete 1914 #[nn]

Set against the sun-drenched shores of Tahiti in 1914, this integral edition from Dark Dragon Books pairs a deeply unsettling image with an almost painterly beauty — a formally dressed man in a bowler hat stands over the blood-soaked body of a woman on the beach, white seabirds drifting above palm-lined shores under a billowing sky. Sébastien Morice's artwork is striking in its restraint, using soft tropical pastels to heighten the tension of that stark, dark-suited figure at the water's edge. Didier Quella-Guyot and Sébastien Morice deliver a collection that promises colonial-era intrigue wrapped in the deceptive paradise of French Polynesia.