Buck Danny #55

The tension is palpable on Gil Formosa's cover for Buck Danny #55, where a helmeted pilot sits focused and resolute in a jet cockpit as tracer fire streaks across a stormy sky behind them — and a massive aircraft carrier looms in the background, guns blazing. "Defcon One" signals exactly the kind of high-stakes military brinkmanship this long-running aviation series does best, with Frédéric Zumbiehl on scripting duties and Isabelle Drouaillet-Formosa's colors lending the scene a charged, cinematic atmosphere. A solid entry in the Buck Danny legacy from Dupuis, this 2016 album looks like an unmissable chapter for fans of grounded, thrilling aerial adventure.