The Grocery #2

The second installment of Ankama's offbeat French series The Grocery brings another dose of street-level strangeness, with Singelin and Ducoudray's distinctive world fully on display. The cover assembles a motley crew of anthropomorphic characters — white, featureless-faced figures mixing with gruffer, more weathered types — loitering and bickering outside a urban shop front advertising "Home Delivery." There's a wonderfully lived-in energy to the scene, with a motorcycle, a seated figure nursing a drink, and speech bubbles hinting at the kind of neighborhood drama that makes this series so enjoyably grounded despite its surreal character designs.