I.R.$. #17

A man in a rumpled suit kneels in what appears to be a cemetery, his hand pressed to his bowed head in a moment of raw grief or desperation, a revolver resting loosely in his other hand — it's a quietly devastating image that sets a somber, high-stakes tone for "Larry's Paradise." Writer Stephen Desberg and artist Bernard Vrancken bring their signature mix of financial intrigue and human cost to this seventeenth installment of the long-running I.R.$. series, published by Le Lombard in 2016. The stone angels watching silently in the background only deepen the mood, promising a story where the personal and the dangerous are impossible to separate.