Neige #14

The fourteenth volume of Didier Convard and Christian Giné's Neige series arrives with a cover that wastes no time setting the stakes: a rugged, heavily clothed figure strides forward through a wintry landscape, weapon in hand, carrying a child on his back while buildings blaze in a dramatic wall of flame behind them. Two other figures flank the scene, the chaos of fire and smoke contrasting sharply with the cold, pale ground underfoot. Le Printemps d'Orion promises exactly the kind of tense, visually arresting storytelling that has kept this long-running French series compelling well into its second decade.