Achab #4

Patrick Mallet's Achab reaches its fourth installment, subtitled La jambe d'ivoire, with a cover that immediately signals peril and isolation — a lone figure struggles amid churning ice and towering white masses, dwarfed by the frozen chaos surrounding him. The stark, pale palette and swirling forms evoke both the brutality of the sea and the crushing weight of obsession drawn from Melville's enduring myth. This 2011 entry from treize étrange looks like a compelling chapter in what is clearly a visually ambitious Franco-Belgian retelling.