Robbedoes Hoop in bange dagen #1

Émile Bravo returns to Robbedoes (Spirou) with Hoop in Bange Dagen, and this 2019 Dupuis album opens with a cover that sets the tone beautifully. The young red-suited hero stands small but resolute with his bicycle on a cobblestone street, dwarfed by two enormous, looming black boots that close in from either side — a quietly unsettling image that speaks to a world of outsized threats facing an ordinary kid. It's a deceptively simple composition from Bravo that balances vulnerability and quiet courage in a single, well-crafted frame.