Het kasteel van miljoenen jaren #1

Set against a sweeping desert landscape, this striking 2023 Belgian album from Daedalus immediately signals grand-scale adventure: a looming Nazi officer dominates the background beneath a hovering disc-shaped craft and red banners, while in the foreground a rifle-armed figure on camelback and a determined young woman in military attire stand ready for what promises to be a collision between wartime intrigue and something far stranger. Het voorvaderlijk erfgoed — "The Ancestral Heritage" — is a tantalizing subtitle for an opener that blends pulp-era thrills with ancient mysteries hinted at by the rocky desert formations surrounding the cast. With Nolane, Przybylski, and Vladetic at the helm, this first volume of Het kasteel van miljoenen jaren sets its sights high from the very first cover.