Aria #25

Michel Weyland's long-running fantasy series continues with Florina, and the cover sets an immediately unsettling tone: Aria, red-clad and wide-eyed atop her horse, finds herself clutched by a ghastly pale creature trailing wispy pink tendrils — whatever this supernatural threat is, she looks anything but at ease. Weyland's detailed linework brings real tension to the confrontation, balancing Aria's determined expression against the genuinely creepy otherworldliness of her adversary. If 2003's fantasy comics had you hungry for sword-and-sorcery adventures with a distinctly European sensibility, this Dupuis volume delivers that atmosphere in spades.