Exo #2

The second volume of Jerry Frissen and Philippe Scoffoni's Exo trilogy arrives with a cover that immediately pulls you in two directions at once: a close-up of a blue-tinted figure in a neural-looking skullcap gazes upward toward a massive moon, where a sleek spacecraft hovers against the starfield, while below — bathed in warm red light — a street scene hints at figures in motion. "Moon Strike" promises exactly the kind of propulsive, dual-world science fiction that makes this 2016 Les Humanoïdes Associés series so compelling. With the middle chapter of a three-part story, the stakes feel appropriately elevated.