Luc Orient #11

The cover of this 1997 Carlsen Comics edition — pencilled and inked by William Vance and Felicísimo Coria — plunges you straight into a primordial world, dominated by a mass of enormous, segmented prehistoric creatures writhing and coiling above churning prehistoric seas, with fern-like vegetation and strange mushroom forms clustered at the water's edge. The title Sprung in die Vergangenheit ("Leap into the Past") promises exactly the kind of time-displaced adventure the Luc Orient series does so well, and the cover delivers a vivid sense of an ancient, alien ecosystem teeming with danger. With Greg and Eddy Paape steering the story, this German-language album is a fine entry in the long-running series.