Bouncer #9

Under a blazing desert sun that bleaches the sky to a molten amber, a determined figure in a rust-red coat hauls two companions—or perhaps captives—across a rocky, arid landscape on this striking cover by François Boucq. The title "And Back" hints at a hard journey returning from somewhere perilous, and Boucq's sun-scorched linework gives every cracked stone and parched cactus a palpable, sweltering weight. Jodorowsky and Boucq's Western saga continues to deliver grit and atmosphere in equal measure with this 2014 Glénat volume.