Thorgal - Vaarwel Aaricia #[nn]

This 2023 Le Lombard release brings a haunting, elegiac quality to the long-running Thorgal saga, with Robin Recht handling both writing and art duties. The cover tells its own quiet story: a lone, arrow-bearing figure stands with his back to us at the edge of a still, wintry fjord, watching a small vessel burn on the water, while the luminous face of a woman — Aaricia herself — hovers like a spirit across the deep blue night sky above the mountains. That single image, rendered in cold blues with one warm flicker of flame, captures grief and farewell with remarkable restraint and beauty.