Toxic planet #3

The third volume of David Ratte's Toxic Planet series arrives with "Retour de Flamme," and its cover sets the tone perfectly: three young survivors in gas masks pick their way through a grimy, polluted wasteland, while an oversized mutant fly drifts ominously overhead. Ratte's rubbery, expressive character designs give the kids a wonderfully resilient energy even amid the environmental wreckage surrounding them. If you're following this darkly comic ecological adventure from Editions Paquet, this 2008 installment looks like a thoroughly worthwhile next chapter.