Les Fils d'El Topo #1

A brooding, wide-brimmed hat casts a shadow over the weathered, bearded face of a solitary figure — a presence that feels both mythic and quietly menacing against a dusty, ember-flecked sky. This 2016 Glénat series opener, subtitled Caïn, unites writer Alejandro Jodorowsky with artist José Ladrönn, whose cover work blends cinematic grit with painterly atmosphere. If this first chapter carries even a fraction of the dark poetry promised by that cover, it's a Western unlike anything else on the shelf.