La Guerre des Mondes #1

Based on H.G. Wells' enduring science-fiction novel, this French-language manga adaptation from Ki-oon opens with a strikingly spare cover: a skeletal, insectoid alien form rendered in stark white linework against a deep black background, all long spindly limbs and an unsettling beak-like protrusion. The minimalist design is quietly unnerving — there's something deeply wrong about its proportions, and that discomfort is entirely intentional. A strong opening volume from creators Sai Ihara and Hitotsu Yokoshima, bringing one of literature's great alien-invasion stories into manga form for 2021 readers.