La Rafale #3

Two women — one in a flowing orange dress, one in a light blue outfit — sit together on the front of a massive steam locomotive marked "2 R.E.I.," their contrasting styles hinting at very different worlds colliding against an industrial backdrop. Terminus Saïgon is the evocative subtitle for this third volume of La Rafale, the Franco-Belgian series from Cothias, Ordas, and Winoc published by Bamboo Édition's Grand Angle imprint in 2014. The cover's quiet tension — two figures, one iron machine, and a destination that carries the weight of history — makes this an intriguing entry point into what promises to be a richly atmospheric story.