Julien Tartafouille #2

Part of Glénat's Collection BD Noire, this 1980 album brings Lionel E. Garcia's Julien Tartafouille back for a second outing with "Le tombeau de l'ombre." The cover, fully rendered by Garcia, sets a brooding noir mood: an older, heavyset man studies papers at a desk lamp-lit study, while a younger, more athletic figure looms watchfully behind him amid walls of books. It's a quietly tense scene that promises the kind of shadowy intrigue the BD Noire imprint does so well.