L'Histoire secrète #32

Volume 32 of L'Histoire Secrète — subtitled "Apocalypto" — arrives with a cover that sets an immediately striking tone: a lone man in a floral shirt and cargo pants strides forward, hand raised to his brow, while a hazy crowd of indistinct silhouettes looms behind him in the amber mist. The creative team of Pécau, Kordey, and O'Grady delivers a mood that is both intimate and quietly unsettling, balancing one figure's determined solitude against the weight of the anonymous mass at his back. Published by Delcourt in 2013, this thirty-second volume of the long-running French series promises the kind of layered, atmospheric storytelling the series is known for.