Kruisvaart #3

The third chapter of this Dutch-language crusades series brings readers to "De slag bij Mansoura" — the Battle of Mansoura — and Zhang Xiaoyu's cover art makes the stakes immediately clear. A young armored warrior on horseback surges forward, sword raised high, while a chaos of grasping hands, spears, and fallen soldiers swarms from every direction below. It's a vivid, kinetic image that captures both the desperation and fierce momentum of medieval battle in 2012 European comics at their most visually ambitious.