Commissaire Kouamé #2

From writer Marguerite Abouet and artist Donatien Mary, this second volume of Commissaire Kouamé — subtitled Un Homme Tombe Avec Son Ombre — arrives from Gallimard Bande Dessinée with a cover that pulses with nocturnal tension. Under a deep night sky flanked by palm trees, a confrontation unfolds around a red car: a man in a star-patterned tie levels a pistol, a figure in a wide-brimmed hat stands poised nearby, a woman in uniform watches from the shadows, and a wild-eyed man in a torn robe spreads his arms dramatically in a doorway. Abouet and Mary deliver the kind of atmospheric, West African noir that feels wholly its own — urgent, visually rich, and impossible to put down.