Rio #3

The third volume of Louise Garcia and Corentin Rouge's Rio series arrives with a cover that pulls you straight into the heat and spectacle of carnival — two figures locked in a passionate embrace, one adorned with vivid golden jewelry and sweeping red-and-orange feathered wings, confetti swirling all around them. Rouge's warm, saturated color work gives the image an almost cinematic intensity, capturing both the beauty and underlying tension suggested by the subtitle "Barbaars carnaval." If the first two volumes drew you in, this one makes a compelling visual case that the stakes — and the drama — are only rising.