Jour J #11

An ornate hot-air balloon drifts over a burning Paris on this striking cover, setting the stage for an alternate-history thriller where, four years after the king's death, Marie-Antoinette's armies march on the capital — it's 1795 as it never was. Duval, Pécau, and Calvez conjure a breathtaking aerial vantage point over the Tuileries, the city glowing ominously below, that captures everything compelling about Jour J's reimagined French Revolution. Issue 11 in this acclaimed Delcourt series is a fine entry point for anyone drawn to history bent just far enough to become genuinely thrilling.