Gil St André #12

The twelfth chapter of Gil St André arrives with a quietly tense cover by Chrys Millien: a suited, sunglasses-wearing figure strides confidently at the top of the image, while two younger faces — one darker-complexioned, one lighter — loom large in the foreground, their expressions guarded and serious. Jean-Charles Kraehn and Chrys Millien's long-running French thriller series continues with "Un Passé encombrant" ("A Troublesome Past"), a subtitle that perfectly matches the weight written across those faces. Published by Glénat in 2018, this is the kind of European BD that rewards readers who enjoy character-driven intrigue rendered with clean, expressive linework.