Jessica Blandy #7

The seventh chapter of Jean Dufaux and Renaud's sultry Franco-Belgian thriller series arrives with a hauntingly atmospheric cover: a lone blonde woman in a flowing black dress stands on a pale, windswept expanse, her red scarf trailing behind her as she faces a battered, graffiti-marked car — the image radiating tension and isolation in equal measure. Renaud's linework gives the scene a cinematic stillness that feels both elegant and unsettling, perfectly suited to the story's evocative title, "Répondez, mourant…" ("Answer, dying one…"). If 1992 Belgian comics at their most stylishly moody are your thing, this volume of Jessica Blandy delivers that mood in spades.