Revoir Paris #2

Schuiten and Peeters return with the second volume of Revoir Paris, subtitled "La Nuit des constellations," and the cover alone makes a quiet, breathtaking promise. A young dark-haired woman gazes upward, her expression caught between wonder and unease, while behind her rises a grand Haussmann-era façade bathed in cool silvery light — and above it all, a bat-winged flying machine soars against an ethereal, glass-vaulted sky. François Schuiten's draftsmanship renders this dreamlike Paris with the kind of architectural precision and melancholy beauty that only he and Benoît Peeters together seem to conjure so effortlessly.