Kronieken van de Zwarte Maan #0

The zero issue launching Kronieken van de Zwarte Maan — the Dutch-language edition of Chronicles of the Black Moon — arrives in 2015 with a cover by Olivier Ledroit that immediately signals the series' dark fantasy tone: a massive black-winged creature looms beneath a shadowed moon, while a woman in flowing purple robes clutches a child, both enveloped by swirling spectral figures and ghostly faces emerging from pale, windswept mists. Written by François Marcela Froideval and brought to life by Fabrice Angleraud with colors by Anouk Pérusse-Bell, "In een wreed spel" promises the kind of brooding, otherworldly atmosphere that defines the best of European fantasy comics. A compelling entry point for readers drawn to richly illustrated dark fantasy.