S.O.S. Lusitania #3

The third volume of S.O.S. Lusitania arrives with a haunting subtitle — "La mémoire des noyés" (The Memory of the Drowned) — and Manini's cover delivers an image that lingers: a pale, ghostly figure in a billowing cape drifts weightlessly through the flooded, ornate interior of a great ship, surrounded by scattered debris and a lone top hat floating in the eerie green water. The grandeur of the vessel's curved architecture, now submerged and silent, makes for a deeply atmospheric tableau that captures both the tragedy and the strange beauty of the deep. Manini's art and colors bathe the entire scene in cool, spectral teal tones, making this 2015 Bamboo Édition release feel genuinely haunting.