Gefährliche Liebschaften - Vorspiel #3

Djief's cover painting for this third installment of Gefährliche Liebschaften – Vorspiel is genuinely breathtaking: a luminous, spectral stag rears and churns amid crashing golden waves while a solitary armored figure watches from a rocky shore, the whole scene bathed in an otherworldly amber light. Subtitled Das Halali der Liebe — "The Hallali of Love" — the issue promises the kind of mythic, atmospheric storytelling that Stéphane Betbeder and Djief have been building across this prequel series. Splitter Verlag's 2020 release looks like a compelling blend of folklore and passion, and that cover alone makes it hard to put back on the shelf.