Le Fou du Roy #5

The fifth volume of Cothias and Goepfert's swashbuckling French series Le Fou du Roy arrives with a cover that immediately sets an intriguing mood: in the foreground, a elegantly dressed young man with a long dark mustache gazes pensively into the distance, while behind him stands a striking figure clad entirely in red — masked and caped — posed before an archway. Subtitled Le Masque et la Plume ("The Mask and the Feather"), this 1998 Glénat release promises a tale where identity and disguise hang at the heart of things. It's a beautifully composed cover that captures the tension between courtly sophistication and mysterious intrigue that makes this series such a pleasure.