La Rose écarlate #20

Two figures stand wreathed in flames on Patricia Lyfoung's cover for this twentieth volume of La Rose écarlate — a brooding young man with wind-swept hair and a masked, tricorn-hatted figure in dark armor, rapier in hand, their uneasy proximity charged with tension. Published by Delcourt in 2023, the subtitle Nous sommes deux ("We Are Two") perfectly echoes that charged duality between the pair. After twenty volumes, Lyfoung's swashbuckling historical series continues to deliver gorgeous, atmospheric artwork that keeps readers eagerly turning pages.