Jour J #7

Set in an alternate 1925 where Napoléon V rules France, this seventh volume of Duval, Pécau, and Gess's alternate-history series plunges readers into a Paris buzzing with assassination rumors on the eve of an imperial coronation. The cover — rendered by Manchu and Fred Blanchard — presents a breathtaking twilight vision of Notre-Dame cathedral beneath a fleet of massive airships and dirigibles drifting ominously overhead, their silhouettes casting a quiet menace over the illuminated Seine. It's a beautifully composed piece of retro-futurist atmosphere that captures everything compelling about Jour J's reimagined twentieth century.