Ravian #4

A striking 2016 Dutch-language entry in the beloved Ravian en Laureline series, this fourth volume from Sherpa brings Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mézières's imaginative sci-fi world to life with Mézières's cover art showing a crowded wooden sailing vessel cutting through choppy amber waters, its crew of diverse figures — including what appear to be Ravian and Laureline — navigating toward a distant industrial cityscape on the horizon. Lurking alongside the hull is a vivid purple-red sea creature, adding a note of alien menace to an already striking scene. With colorist Évelyn Tran-Lê bathing everything in warm ochres and burnt golds, "Welkom op Alflolol" promises the kind of richly imagined interplanetary adventure that has made this series a cornerstone of European comics.