Oude beloften #[nn]

A weathered football stadium sets the mood for Oude Beloften, this 2024 Dutch-language release from Dark Dragon Books. Pedro Rodriguez's cover art places a solitary, sunglasses-wearing man smoking on the bleachers above a battered advertising hoarding, while a scuffed football rests at its edge and a muddy puddle sits on the pitch below — a quietly melancholic portrait of a world well past its glory days. Writers Iñaki San Román and Álvaro Velasco look to bring the same grounded, human atmosphere to their story of old promises.