Durango #1

A weathered gunfighter fills the cover of this 2007 Soleil release, cigarette at his lips and revolver raised against a stark, snow-blanketed winter forest — the mood is tense and beautifully cold. Les Chiens Meurent en Hiver ("Dogs Die in Winter") sets an immediately gripping tone for this French-language Western series. Yves Swolfs delivers a striking visual promise that this is a story where the landscape itself is as unforgiving as the man standing in it.