Lady S. #17

Issue seventeen of the long-running Belgian spy series brings Lady S. into what looks like a tense desert-zone confrontation — the cover shows the blonde protagonist crouching low, gripping a heavy machine gun with an ammunition box attached, while military helicopters sweep through a smoke-stained ochre sky behind her. The Dutch subtitle In de naam van de vader, de zoon en Samarium hints at something with weighty, almost biblical stakes tied to the rare-earth element samarium. Aymond and Bollée deliver another sleek, kinetic package through Dupuis, and the 2024 entry looks every bit as gripping as the series' devoted readers have come to expect.