Thorgal #35

Thorgal stands alone amid a landscape of crackling flames on Grzegorz Rosiński's cover for this 2016 Polish edition — the warrior grips an axe and a drawn sword, a red sash catching the firelight as a pair of glowing eyes loom ominously in the smoke above him. "Szkarłatny ogień" (Scarlet Fire) promises the kind of brooding, mythic tension the series does so well, with Rosiński's painted artwork giving every ember and shadow a cinematic weight. Written by Xavier Dorison and Wojciech Birek, this thirty-fifth volume looks like a chapter that earns its dramatic title.