Notre Mère la Guerre #4

The concluding chapter of Notre Mère la Guerre arrives with this quietly devastating volume, subtitled "Requiem" — a title that says everything about the tone Kris and Maël have built across this series. Maël's cover renders a solitary woman in black, kneeling in grief among rows of crosses on a barren, war-scarred hillside — an image of mourning so still and heavy it speaks without a single word. Published by Futuropolis in 2012, this final installment promises the resolution — "Le Dénouement!" — of one of French comics' most somber meditations on war and its cost.