La bombe #[nn]

Five silhouetted figures stand united beneath an enormous mushroom cloud in Denis Rodier's striking cover for this 2020 Glénat release — a composition that captures both the human scale of the people involved and the terrifying enormity of what they helped unleash. Written by Alcante and Laurent-Frédéric Bollée, La Bombe promises a weighty, historically charged narrative told with the kind of sober gravity that the subject demands. The muted palette and bold title design make this one of the most visually arresting French-language graphic novels of 2020.