Miss Oktober #2

The pink-tinted cover of Miss Oktober #2 sets an immediately stylish, tension-laced mood: a confident blonde woman in a white bikini and wide-brimmed hat dominates the foreground, while a suited silhouette holding a gun looms ominously behind her — elegance and danger sharing the same frame. Subtitled "Dode van de maand" and bearing the tagline Right Time to Die, this 2013 Le Lombard release promises the kind of glamorous espionage intrigue the series trades in. Writer Stephen Desberg and artist Alain Queireix — whose clean, assured linework brings both the allure and the threat to life — make this a compelling second chapter in the Miss Oktober saga.