14-18 #1

A group of young men gather in what appears to be a French café or tavern, their easy camaraderie captured in a warm period portrait — though a mobilization poster visible on the wall signals that August 1914 is about to change everything. Corbeyran and Le Roux open their WWI series 14-18 with this quietly evocative first volume, "Le petit soldat," grounding the coming conflict in the human faces of ordinary men on the cusp of war. Le Roux's cover art strikes a beautifully understated tone, drawing you into a world still unaware of what the next four years will bring.