Magenta #[nn]

Nik Guerra's Magenta: Noir Fatal arrives with a cover that's all sultry menace — a dark-haired femme fatale in glossy black gloves levels a revolver with cool, half-lidded confidence, rendered in stark black and white with only her vivid red lips providing a pop of color. The graphic monochrome style gives the whole image a timeless, hardboiled atmosphere perfectly suited to the "noir fatal" promise of the title. At 19 EUR from Graph Zeppelin, this 2017 release looks like a sharp, stylish entry in European crime comics.