Lignes de front #6

Set against a sun-baked desert airfield, the cover of this 2015 Delcourt release places a shirtless, self-assured young man front and center, wrench in hand, with a WWII-era fighter plane and a lone scrubby tree stretching across the arid landscape behind him. The title "Le paradis des chasseurs" — "The Paradise of Hunters" — carries an evocative tension that feels perfectly at home in Jean-Pierre Pécau's wartime series, brought to life here by artists Manchu and Pierre Loyvet. With Benoît Dellac on art and Jean-Paul Fernandez on colors for the interior, Lignes de Front #6 looks to be another richly atmospheric chapter in this French-language saga of conflict and survival.