Julien Boisvert #3

The third volume of Delcourt's Julien Boisvert series arrives in 1992 with "Jikuri," and Michel Plessix's sun-warmed cover sets a quietly compelling mood — a young woman leans in a doorway of a weathered green building while figures stroll a dusty Latin American street behind her, a church tower rising in the distance. Plessix's linework captures that languid, slightly mysterious atmosphere that makes Franco-Belgian adventure comics so appealing. Written by Dieter and Plessix, with colors by Isabelle Rabarot, this is an inviting entry in a series that clearly knows how to blend character and atmosphere.