Taras Boulba #2

Based on Nikolai Gogol's sweeping epic, this second volume from Morivan, Voulyze, Korobt, and Peng brings the legendary Zaporozhian warrior to vivid life. The cover is immediately arresting — a red-bearded Cossack commander raises a crescent-and-cross banner triumphantly against a blazing crimson sky, surrounded by a forest of spears and shadowed warriors pressing in around him. Delcourt's 2008 adaptation honors Gogol's source material with art that captures the defiant, larger-than-life spirit at the heart of this classic tale of the Ukrainian steppes.