Operatie Overlord #2

The cover of this second volume in the Operatie Overlord series sets a striking dual scene: a helmeted German soldier manning a heavy machine gun looms large in the upper portion, while below, Allied landing craft push through smoke and fire toward a burning shoreline — the chaos of Omaha Beach rendered in vivid, unsettling detail. Subtitled "Omaha Beach" and framed as part of "Het Begin van D-Day," this 2016 Dutch-language release from Silvester brings the work of Bruno Falba, Davide Fabbri, and Christian Dalla Vecchia to one of history's most harrowing military operations. If the tension between that cold, watchful gunner above and the desperate assault below is any indication, this is wartime comics storytelling handled with real gravity.