Pim #2

The second album in Rob van Barneveld's Pim series arrives with a wonderfully creepy cover that sets the mood perfectly for "De vloek van Poppenstein." A boy in a red sweater and a ghostly girl clutch small objects as they stand wide-eyed before a graveyard teeming with red skeletons, monsters, and a flapping bat — all beneath a stormy night sky with a crescent moon and a looming haunted mansion. Van Barneveld's charmingly hand-drawn style makes the whole ghoulish scene feel more delightfully spooky than terrifying, with colorist Mattt Baay's bold palette giving the chaos a vivid, storybook energy that's hard to resist.