1984 #[nn]

This French graphic-novel adaptation of George Orwell's 1984, from Soleil, announces itself with striking visual authority: a lone, hunched figure clutching a briefcase picks his way through rubble-strewn streets while an enormous, all-seeing eye looms from the blood-red propaganda mural behind him — surveillance and dread made viscerally immediate in black, white, and red. Rémi Torregrossa's cover art distills Orwell's totalitarian world into a single, quietly haunting image that feels both faithful to the source material and genuinely cinematic. Writer Jean-Christophe Derrien and Torregrossa make a compelling case that Oceania belongs on the comics page just as powerfully as it does on the printed one.