Bouncer #2

The Dutch-language edition of Boucq and Jodorowsky's gritty Western series delivers its second chapter with a cover that pulls no punches: a masked, hat-wearing gunman presses a revolver against a young woman's head while gripping her from behind, rendered in Boucq's characteristically detailed linework against warm, weathered earth tones. "Het medelijden van de beul" — loosely, "The Executioner's Mercy" — sets a tense, morally charged mood before you've even cracked the spine. Published by Oog & Blik in 2002, this is hard-boiled frontier storytelling from one of European comics' most distinctive creative pairings.