Les Naufragés d'Ythaq #14

A determined young woman stands front and center on this striking 2016 Soleil cover for Les Naufragés d'Ythaq tome 14, "Le Joyau du génie" — backpack slung over one shoulder, a curved blade planted in the dusty ground beside her, with an exotic fortified settlement and a massive floating crustacean-like vessel drifting through the sky behind her. Adrien Floch's artwork gives the scene a wonderful sense of scale, balancing the figure's quiet resolve against an alien landscape scattered with debris and distant wreckage. Written by Christophe Arleston and illustrated by Floch with colors by Claude Guth, this fourteenth volume looks like a rich continuation of one of French genre comics' most imaginatively crafted science-fantasy series.