Cher pays de notre enfance #[nn]

A towering, medal-draped figure in formal military dress dominates this stark, mostly monochrome cover — splashes of red cutting through the grey like old wounds — setting a tone that is at once official and deeply unsettling. The subtitle, Enquête sur les années de plomb de la Ve République ("Investigation into the leaden years of the Fifth Republic"), signals that Étienne Davodeau and Benoît Collombat are digging into some of France's most turbulent political history. Published by Futuropolis in 2015, this is the kind of serious, ambitious bande dessinée that reminds you the medium is perfectly suited to tackle the darkest chapters of a nation's memory.