Les Chroniques de Conan #1986 (II)

A handsome French-language hardcover from Panini Comics, this second 1986 volume of Les Chroniques de Conan collects stories by Kraar, Kwapisz, and Docherty. The cover art is immediately gripping: a muscular, intense Conan crouches forward, peering down at a grotesque, monstrous face reflected — or perhaps emerging — from dark water, his expression fierce and focused. It's a moody, atmospheric image that captures the brooding danger at the heart of Robert E. Howard's Hyborian world perfectly.