Jerome K. Jerome Bloks #29

The twenty-ninth volume of Dodier's long-running Belgian series arrives in 2024 with a cover that sets a quietly unsettling mood — Jerome, wide-eyed behind his round glasses and wrapped in a scarf, grips iron bars from the inside of a rain-slicked rooftop window, fallen autumn leaves scattered on the ledge below him. The title Levenslang — meaning "life sentence" — hangs over that anxious expression with just the right amount of dread. Dodier's warm, detailed linework and Cerise's muted autumnal palette make this a thoroughly inviting entry in one of Franco-Belgian comics' most enduring detective series.