Jerome K. Jerome Bloks #13

The thirteenth album in Dodier's beloved Belgian series puts red-haired Jerome in an unsettling close-up, a knife pressed to his throat by an unseen hand, while a lone figure and a yellow construction crane loom ominously in the rubble-strewn background — a quietly tense composition that makes "Het Pact" feel genuinely suspenseful. Dodier's clean, expressive linework gives the scene an intimacy that balances unease with the warmth fans of the series have come to love. A solid 1998 entry in one of Franco-Belgian comics' most charming detective series.