Anita Bomba #4

A brooding, atmospheric cover from Cromwell and Eric Gratien sets the tone for this fourth installment in Casterman's *Anita Bomba* series. The title character crouches amid a gritty industrial wasteland of chain-link fencing, a massive tire, hanging cages, and shadowy machinery, her mushroom-cap hat and roller skates giving her a distinctly offbeat, streetwise silhouette against a smoky amber sky. The tagline *"La vie est trop courte…"* ("Life is too short…") hangs over the scene with just the right mix of world-weariness and dark wit that made this 1997 French-language series so compelling.