Missions "Kimono" #18

High above the clouds, a sleek commercial airliner dominates the cover in striking close-up, its nose and engines rendered with crisp, photo-realistic detail — while a French Rafale fighter jet banks sharply into view alongside it, with a helmeted pilot visible in an ejection seat nearby. The contrast between the civilian aircraft and military hardware makes for a genuinely tense visual setup for this eighteenth volume of Missions Kimono, subtitled El "Chino". Francis Nicole and Jean-Yves Brouard's long-running aviation series continues to deliver the kind of sky-high intrigue that fans of the bande dessinée tradition will find hard to resist.