Undertaker #4

The fourth volume of Dargaud's atmospheric Western series Undertaker arrives in 2017 with a cover that sets an immediately tense, rain-soaked mood: a bearded, dark-clad man cradles an injured or fallen woman on the ground, pistol in hand, while a saddled horse and a bird perched on a bare tree loom in the misty background. Ralph Meyer's linework and Caroline Delabie's cool, grey-blue palette give the scene a brooding, elegiac weight that feels entirely fitting for a series built around mortality and the frontier. "De schaduw van Hippocrates" promises another chapter steeped in moral ambiguity, with Xavier Dorison's storytelling guided by a visual language that rewards careful attention.