Les gorilles du général #1

Set against a sickly yellow-green background that practically crackles with Cold War tension, this opening volume of Les Gorilles du Général presents four suited men in a charged standoff — two broad-shouldered figures looming in the foreground, a cigarette-smoking man lurking in the shadows behind, and a steely-eyed figure in a grey suit and red tie holding the centre with quiet authority. Writer Xavier Dorison and artist Julien Telo launch this Casterman series in 2025 with Septembre 59, a political thriller steeped in the murky world of bodyguards, power, and post-war France. Telo's cover composition is all controlled menace — the palette, the postures, the smoke — promising a story where danger wears a very well-pressed suit.