O'Boys #2

The title says it all — "Two Gay Cats on a Burning Train" — and Steve Cuzor's cover delivers exactly that tension and swagger, showing two young men scrambling atop a moving freight car, one clutching a fiddle as the dusty landscape stretches out behind them. Cuzor's painterly linework gives the scene a sun-baked, Depression-era weight that feels both dangerous and alive. Philippe Thirault and Cuzor's O'Boys continues to look like one of 2009's most atmospheric Franco-Belgian series, rooting its railroad adventure in a world where music and survival go hand in hand.