Les Godillots #5

The fifth volume of Les Godillots — "Un p'tit dernier avant la Paix" — arrives from Bamboo Édition with a cover that captures the series' muddy, bittersweet heart: a group of French poilus in their distinctive blue greatcoats scramble across a damaged wooden bridge above churned, flooded terrain, their expressions mixing urgency with weary determination. The washed-out blues and whites of Marko's artwork give the scene a melancholy beauty that perfectly suits a story set on the edge of the Great War's end. Olier and Marko's long-running series continues to find the human warmth buried beneath the mud and chaos of 1918.