Les Assassins d'Oz #[nn]

A dark reimagining of the Land of Oz arrives from Atlantic BD, with Angelo Cirrotto and Richard Jordan delivering a brooding, thriller-tinged take subtitled No Place Like Home. The cover pulls no punches — a terrified young woman screams at the center while skulls, a sword, a menacing crow-like figure, and two grim-faced men loom out of a deep blue-grey shadow, suggesting a world far removed from any yellow brick road. For readers drawn to noir-edged genre mashups, this 2013 French-language release looks like a genuinely unsettling ride.