Durandal #2

The second chapter of Durandal's Breton saga arrives with a hauntingly beautiful cover: a red-haired young woman in a dark fur-trimmed cloak cradles a gleaming golden-hilted sword, surrounded by a swirling ominous flock of ravens against a pale, wintry sky. John MacCambridge's artwork — handling both line work and color — gives the scene a brooding, mythic atmosphere that feels rooted equally in Carolingian legend and dark fantasy. If "La Marche de Bretagne, Partie II" lives up to this 2010 cover's quiet intensity, readers are in for something genuinely atmospheric.