Destins #4

From Glénat's Destins series, this 2010 volume brings together writer Frank Giroud, Valérie Mangin, and artist Daniel Hulet for an entry titled Paranoïa. The cover is a striking split composition: above, a pale, wide-eyed figure wearing a military helmet sits rigid against a swirling blue vortex of spiraling forms that immediately evoke unease and mental fragmentation; below, a lone silhouette stands before a luminous, bare-branched tree spreading across an inky black void. Together these two images set a mood that is deeply psychological and quietly unsettling, promising the kind of thoughtful, human-scale drama that has made the Destins series a compelling corner of French-language bande dessinée.