Orakel #5

The fifth chapter of Daedalus's dark fantasy series Orakel arrives with a cover that commands immediate attention — a red-haired woman in a flowing gown stands perilously close to an enormous, glowing-eyed armored colossus, while flames engulf a grand columned hall in the background and figures clash amid the chaos. Erwan Seure-Le Bihan's cover art masterfully balances the intimate and the catastrophic, placing the woman's composed defiance against the overwhelming scale of the creature looming over her. "De weduwe" — The Widow — promises the kind of atmospheric, mythic storytelling that writer Stéphane Betbeder and this creative team have made their signature in 2016.