L'Âge d'eau #1

Benjamin Flao's L'Âge d'eau — Première Partie opens with a cover that immediately earns its keep: a small boat adrift on a vast, sun-drenched expanse of water, figures aboard rendered tiny against shimmering golden-green light and distant islands half-dissolved in haze. Futuropolis brings this quietly atmospheric work to shelves in 2021, and Flao's painterly vision of an almost mythic waterworld feels both contemplative and genuinely transporting. If you're drawn to bande dessinée that treats landscape as something close to a living character, this first part looks like a compelling place to dive in.