Sisco #2

The second volume of this European espionage thriller by Legrain and Benec opens with a cover that wastes no time establishing its tense, shadowy world: a sharp-suited man in a dark jacket and red tie presses a handgun directly under a young woman's chin, their faces inches apart in a cold, tiled interior that feels more interrogation room than safe house. The German subtitle — Bring Sie zum Schweigen! ("Silence Her!") — frames the confrontation with an urgency that pulls you straight in. For fans of sleek, realistic Franco-Belgian thriller comics, Sisco is delivering exactly the kind of close-quarters tension the genre does best.