Arq #4

The fourth volume of Andreas's enigmatic Arq series arrives from Delcourt with a cover that's hard to look away from: a looming, mechanically augmented figure dominates the stark black background, its red goggled eyes and segmented helmet radiating quiet menace while a glowing object rests just within reach of its clawed hand. Andreas's angular, intricate linework is immediately recognizable, lending the image a cold, unsettling elegance that suits the series' distinctive atmosphere perfectly. Racken promises another chapter of the layered, otherworldly storytelling that makes Arq one of European comics' most compelling long-form works of 2000.