14-18 #8

The eighth volume of Corbeyran and Le Roux's acclaimed Great War series plunges readers into the brutal underground fighting of "La Caverne du Dragon" in the spring of 1917. Le Roux's cover perfectly captures the desperate intensity of trench warfare — a tight cluster of French poilus, rifles raised and faces taut with determination, press forward through a smoke-choked, flame-lit hell of shattered timber and churned earth. Delcourt continues to deliver one of the most viscerally honest comics treatments of the First World War, and this installment looks every bit as harrowing as the history it draws from.