Necron #5

Magnus's pulpy, high-contrast artwork is on full display in this fifth volume from Éditions Cornélius, featuring the title character — a hulking, green-skinned figure with headset and drooling menace — looming over a bound woman against a vivid red backdrop crowded with lurching, skeletal undead figures. The story promised inside, "Le Roi des cannibales," suggests the kind of lurid, boundary-pushing Italian horror comics that Magnus made his signature. It's a striking package for fans of vintage exploitation-tinged fumetti, delivered in 2008 with all the garish bravado the genre demands.