Le Train des Orphelins #1

Xavier Fourquemin's cover sets a quietly haunting tone for this 2012 Grand Angle/Bamboo Édition series opener — a grand, glass-roofed railway station filled with groups of children and adults, while a solitary figure in black stands apart near a waiting train, dwarfed by the hazy, dreamlike atmosphere of the platform. Writer Philippe Charlot and artist Fourquemin invite readers into a world where childhood and journey are poignantly intertwined, the station itself feeling both a place of departure and of uncertain fate. "Jim" promises the kind of thoughtful, atmospheric Franco-Belgian storytelling that lingers well after the last page.