Carthago #14

Christophe Bec and Ennio Bufi bring their deep-sea thriller to a gripping moment in this fourteenth volume of Carthago, subtitled Courbée, je me redresse — "Bent, I rise again." The cover pulls the viewer directly into the gaping maw of a colossal prehistoric shark, its rows of jagged teeth framing the splintered wreckage of a wooden raft being swallowed whole, debris and rope spiraling through the churning, bubble-filled water. It's a visceral, beautifully rendered image from Les Humanoïdes Associés that captures everything this series does so well — vast, ancient menace meeting fragile human survival.