Laiyna #1

Published by Casablanca in 1992, this Swedish fantasy album introduces Laiyna — a fierce, dark-haired warrior woman clad in red leather armor, standing resolute over a fallen figure in a red cloak while a hulking beast-like enemy looms behind her amid the ruins of a gothic spired city. The cover's warm, autumnal palette and richly detailed linework give the whole scene a mythic, painterly atmosphere that feels straight out of a Nordic saga. Subtitled Alverskymning ("Elf Twilight"), it promises a world where the boundary between the human and the fantastical is very much under siege.