Imbattable #3

The third album in Pascal Jousselin's delightfully inventive series finds our yellow-suited, black-masked hero calmly going about business inside a brightly lit kitchen — blissfully unaware, it seems, of the two masked crooks lurking just outside in the blue evening shadows, one brandishing a frying pan and the other clutching a peculiar red gadget. The subtitle Le cauchemar des malfrats — "The Nightmare of Crooks" — perfectly captures the cheeky premise on display: these bandits have picked entirely the wrong target. Jousselin's clean, expressive ligne claire art makes the scene both charming and quietly comic, a warm invitation into what promises to be another playful caper from Dupuis.