Notre Mère la Guerre #1

A haunting watercolor vision opens this 2009 Futuropolis album, with Maël's cover depicting a lone, shrouded figure — draped in white against a bleak, skeletal landscape of broken timber and barren branches — that perfectly captures the desolate mood of war's aftermath. Subtitled "Première complainte," this opening chapter of Notre Mère la Guerre unites writer Kris and artist Maël in what promises to be a deeply human exploration of conflict. The muted, painterly palette and quiet devastation on the cover alone signal that this is wartime storytelling of unusual grace and gravity.