Duke #5

The fifth chapter of Hermann and Yves H.'s Duke series arrives with a quietly unsettling cover: a barefoot young boy sits stiffly in a wicker chair, a pistol resting in his lap, while a tall, bearded man in a teal suit looms behind him with a hand placed on the boy's shoulder. Hermann's muted, painterly linework gives the scene a tense, ambiguous weight — the subtitle "Un pistolero, tu seras" ("A gunslinger, you will be") says everything about the destiny being pressed upon this child. Published by Le Lombard in 2021, this Western series continues to show why Hermann remains one of the most compelling visual storytellers working in the genre.