Orbital #3

The third volume of Runberg and Pellé's sci-fi series sends its two protagonists hurtling through an alien sky inside a sleek, transparent craft, surrounded by extraordinary winged creatures that fill the rushing blue atmosphere around them. Pellé's cover art — all intricate line work and vivid color — captures a world where humanity is very much a guest in someone else's biosphere. Nomades promises the kind of wide-eyed interstellar diplomacy that makes Orbital one of European comics' most visually ambitious series of 2009.