Anita Bomba #2

The second volume of Anita Bomba — subtitled *La Souffrance Rend Meilleur* ("Suffering Makes You Better") — arrives from Albin Michel with a cover that sets a brooding, blood-red tone. A battered, heavily armed figure stands resolute in the foreground, bound with red wrappings and clutching a large firearm, while a dark, wild-haired silhouette looms ominously overhead and a smaller winged form darts through the murky background. Cromwell and Eric Gratien's painted cover art has a raw, visceral quality that makes this 2006 Franco-Belgian release hard to put down before you've even opened it.