Le Roi des Ronces #3

Volume 3 of Yuji Iwahara's Le Roi des Ronces (King of Thorn) arrives in this 2008 Soleil Manga edition, its cover setting a fittingly tense mood — a dark-haired young woman clutches a handgun against a shadowy background of thorned, grasping branches and something disturbingly wrapped and monstrous looming behind her. The stark contrast between her determined expression and the creeping organic horror at her back makes this one of the series' most visually striking volumes.