Bitter Root #1

Bitter Root brings its Harlem Renaissance–era world of monster hunters to French readers with this first collected volume — Affaire Familiale — from Walker, Brown, Greene, and Renzi. The cover assembles the full Sangerye family in striking fashion: an elderly matriarch at center, flanked by warriors armed with strange botanical weapons and elixirs, a young woman in purple, a broad-shouldered fighter, a bow-tied figure bristling with root-tipped ammunition, and — impossibly — a hulking iron automaton looming in their midst, all bathed in a warm amber glow against shelves crowded with mysterious bottles and antidotes. It's the portrait of a family that is also a unit, bound by blood and by the peculiar, dangerous work only they can do.