Déchus #2

The second volume of Aurélien Guilbert's Déchus arrives with a striking cover rendered in stark black-and-white ink, centered on a mysterious, red-lipped woman clutching a cross pendant — an image that perfectly captures the series' tension between the sacred and the fallen. Subtitled Eden, Ouvre-Moi Tes Portes, this 2015 release from Graph Zeppelin promises to push deeper into whatever shadowy territory the first volume introduced. Guilbert's clean, expressive linework gives the cover an intimacy that draws you in before you've even turned the first page.