Silex and the city #9

The ninth volume of Jul's sharp prehistoric satire arrives with a cover that says it all: a scaly pangolin clutches a leafy snack amid scattered bones and a skull, while bewildered cave-dwellers peer out from rocky alcoves above a foggy, desolate landscape. The title La dérive des confinements — "The Drift of Lockdowns" — plants this 2020 installment squarely in the anxieties of its moment, filtering contemporary life through the Stone Age lens that makes this series so cleverly funny. Fans of the series will find Jul's deadpan wit very much alive and well in this timely, wryly observed entry from Dargaud.