Le Réseau Papillon #3

The third volume of Le Réseau Papillon arrives with "Rester libre," and Nicolas Otéro's cover sets the tone beautifully — five determined figures stand together in a snow-blanketed wartime landscape, a tall soldier in uniform flanking a group of young people who look resolute despite the cold and the barbed wire visible at their feet. Franck Dumanche and Otéro's wartime adventure series clearly has stakes to match its snowy atmosphere, with a crumbling stone church looming in the background adding a quiet gravity to the scene. This 2019 release from Editions Jungle promises exactly the kind of tense, human-centered resistance story the cover's tight-knit group of characters quietly demands.