Valois #2

The second volume of Daedalus's Valois series arrives with a cover that immediately commands attention: a pope in white vestments and a crowned knight in full armor face each other in tense, close confrontation, while a cluster of courtly figures — noblewomen and men — fills the space between them beneath a fleur-de-lis banner. Jaime Calderón's artwork renders each face with striking realism, making the collision of ecclesiastical and military power feel genuinely charged. Writer Thierry Gloris's subtitle — "Si deus pro nobis, quis contra nos?" ("If God is with us, who can be against us?") — frames the stakes of this medieval drama with suitably bold ambition.