La Main du singe #1

The cover of this 2008 French graphic novel from Bamboo Édition sets a quietly unsettling mood: a tattooed young woman slumps in a red armchair, head bowed, while what appears to be spilled liquid pools across the floor beside a pair of headphones. Alexis Loumaillé's linework is restrained and naturalistic, letting the ambiguous stillness of the scene do the heavy lifting. La Main du singe Tome 1 opens Cycle I with exactly the kind of atmospheric tension that pulls you straight into the next page.