Lady Spitfire #2

The skies are anything but safe in Lady Spitfire #2 — "Der Henker" (The Hangman) — as cover artist Manchu fills the frame with a tense aerial ballet of WWII aircraft. A bold red-and-black Luftwaffe fighter dominates the foreground, surrounded by a swarm of yellow-nosed German planes banking and diving through sun-streaked clouds, while a lone aircraft tumbles in the distance trailing smoke. Writer Sébastien Latour, artist Maza, and colorist Pierre Schelle bring a vivid, historically charged energy to this 2015 Franco-Belgian series that wears its wartime drama right on its sleeve.