Undertaker #4

The fourth chapter of Dargaud's atmospheric Western series arrives with a brooding, rain-soaked cover by Ralph Meyer — a rugged, dark-haired man crouches in a misty forest clearing, pistol in hand, while a horse lingers behind him and a bird of prey watches from a nearby branch. The cool blue-grey palette, crafted with colors by Caroline Delabie and Ralph Meyer, lends the scene a quiet menace perfectly suited to the title "L'Ombre d'Hippocrate" — the Shadow of Hippocrates. With Xavier Dorison's writing guiding the series, this 2017 installment promises the same morally complex, frontier-era storytelling that has made Undertaker one of European comics' more compelling genre series.