Merlin le prophète #4

The fourth volume of Merlin le Prophète — subtitled L'Âme du Monde — opens with a striking image: a column of mounted warriors stretching back through a snow-blanketed mountain pass, led by a dark-cloaked figure whose brooding presence commands the scene. The wintry landscape, rendered in cool blues and grays by the creative team of Istin, Vukic, and Jacquemoire, gives the whole procession a sense of weight and consequence. If you've been following this Franco-Belgian take on Arthurian legend, 2014's fourth chapter looks ready to push the saga into grander, more epic territory.