Gil St André #2

The second volume of Gil St André arrives from Daedalus in 2011 with "Het verborgen gelaat," a Dutch-language thriller that immediately signals danger and intrigue. Jean-Charles Kraehn's cover pencils and inks place a sharp-suited man in an orange jacket advancing with pistol drawn above a split scene featuring a vulnerable blonde woman in a flowing robe and, in the distance, a car tumbling off a rooftop edge against a moody blue sky. It's a quietly tense composition that promises shadowy secrets and high-stakes action in equal measure.