Bang! #1

Two battered figures — a dark-haired young woman perched defiantly atop a vehicle and a white-haired man slumped beside her, both armed and road-worn — set the tone for this gritty French-language series from Deveney and Godart. The tagline "à l'amour, à la mort…" ("to love, to death…") hints at a story where loyalty and danger are inseparable. Published by Akileos in 2010, Bang! arrives with a raw, painterly aesthetic that immediately signals something a little rough around the edges and all the more compelling for it.