The girl from Ipanema #[nn]

Yves H. and Hermann bring their noir sensibilities together for this evocative Le Lombard release, its cover painting — rendered entirely by Hermann — setting an immediately unsettling tone. Beneath the ghostly glow of a Hollywood sign, a lone figure crouches over a body sprawled on a rain-slicked street, the muted watercolor palette making the scene feel both dreamlike and deeply foreboding. It's a striking image that promises the kind of atmospheric, slow-burn tension that made European crime comics of 2005 so compelling.