Jonathan Cartland #2

Two riders thunder across a sun-baked desert landscape, a covered wagon train trailing behind them in a cloud of dust, with red mesa buttes rising dramatically on the horizon — Michel Blanc-Dumont's cover art for this 2017 Sherpa edition is Western illustration at its most assured. The foremost rider, rifle in hand and red kerchief at his throat, commands the eye immediately, while his dark-haired companion pushes close behind, both men clearly riding hard. "Het laatste konvooi naar Oregon" promises the kind of rugged frontier tension that the Jonathan Cartland series, crafted by Blanc-Dumont and writer Laurence Harlé, delivers so naturally.