Durango #6

From Yves Swolfs comes this gripping 2007 Soleil volume in the Durango series — Le Destin d'un Desperado — whose cover alone sets the pulse racing. A fierce, blue-shirted gunman draped in bandoliers hoists a smoking cannon barrel on his shoulder, teeth bared in a battle cry, while soldiers exchange fire in the dust-hazed background behind him. It's a wild, kinetic image that captures the larger-than-life spirit of Western adventure at its most defiant.