Hauteville House #14

The fourteenth volume of Delcourt's Hauteville House arrives in 2016 with "Le 37e parallèle," and the cover sets an immediately unsettling tone: two small figures stand dwarfed before a stepped pyramid bathed in deep crimson light, while an enormous tentacled, many-eyed creature looms in the darkness above them. The sheer scale of that brooding entity against the tiny human silhouettes makes the stakes feel palpable before a single page is turned. With writing by Fred Duval, art by Thierry Gioux and Emem, colors by Nuria Sayago, and cover work by Manchu and Gioux, this is a visually striking entry in the long-running French series.