Le Boche #7

The seventh chapter of Glénat's Le Boche arrives in 2000 with "La route mandarine," and Stéphane Boutel's cover sets a quietly captivating mood: a fair-haired man poles a wooden boat through lush, palm-lined tropical waterways while a young woman in a pink top sits at the bow, a distant figure crossing a bridge in the soft background. Boutel's linework and Jacky Robert's warm, sun-dappled palette evoke an Indochine atmosphere that feels both tranquil and charged with unspoken tension. Bardet and Boutel's collaboration continues to show real craft in blending adventure and atmosphere across this long-running series.