Le Merlu #2

The second chapter of Le Merlu arrives with a cover that sets a quietly gripping tone: a lone soldier in winter gear moves cautiously through a snow-blanketed landscape, rifle in hand, while a convoy of military trucks bearing Red Cross markings looms in the frozen background. Thierry Dubois and Jérôme Phalippou frame the scene with a muted, wintry palette that speaks to both the cold and the tension of wartime roads. Subtitled Les Routes du Sang — "The Roads of Blood" — this 2021 release from Éditions Paquet promises a story where survival and peril travel side by side.