Le Fils de l'officier #1

This opening volume of Le Fils de l'officier, subtitled La Tête Abîmée, sets a quietly haunting tone with a cover that immediately draws you in. A young man in a blue coat wheels a bicycle through a pale, fog-shrouded landscape, a messenger bag slung over his shoulder, while behind him the ghostly silhouettes of crucifixes loom out of the mist — an image that feels both intimate and deeply melancholic. Writer Patrick Cothias, artist Patrice Ordas, and colorist Christelle Galland deliver a visual atmosphere in 2011 that is restrained and painterly, promising a story rooted in history and human weight.