Thérapie de groupe #1

Manu Larcenet launches Thérapie de groupe with this striking 2019 opener, "L'étoile qui danse," and the cover immediately sets the tone: a lone, bespectacled figure sits hunched at a cluttered desk in a small pool of warm light, while a swirling dark mass of shadowy, chaotic creatures looms over the surrounding void. The contrast between that tiny, vulnerable human presence and the overwhelming darkness pressing in around it is quietly unsettling and deeply compelling. Larcenet handles every creative role himself — writing, drawing, inking, and coloring — and that singular vision is already palpable in this bold first volume from Dargaud.