Hauteville House #3

The fifth volume of Delcourt's Hauteville House series brings writer Fred Duval and artists Thierry Gioux and Manchu together for "USS Kearsarge," and the cover immediately sets a haunting underwater mood — a dark submarine glides through teal depths alongside an enormous fish, surrounded by smaller schooling creatures caught in an eerie, muted light. Colorist Carole Beau's cool palette gives the scene a genuinely unsettling atmosphere, balancing the mechanical menace of the vessel against the quiet vastness of the ocean around it.