白竜Hadou [Hakuryuu Hadou] #5

Volume 5 of 白竜 HADOU delivers a striking cover that says everything about the series' tension: a sharp-eyed man in a grey suit holds a drawn blade at the ready, while a massive serpentine dragon coils through a neon-lit Tokyo skyline behind him. The pairing of cold urban ambition and mythic imagery is exactly the kind of visual energy that makes this Nihon Bungeisha series so compelling. With story by 天王寺大 and art by 渡辺みちお, this volume continues to make a strong case for Hadou as one of the more visually assured entries in the yakuza manga genre.