Valois #2

The second volume of this French historical series brings writer Thierry Gloris and artist Jaime Calderón back to the turbulent world of the Valois dynasty, with colors by Felideus giving the cover a rich, painterly weight. Jaime Calderón's cover art places a papal figure and an armored knight face to face in tense confrontation, while a group of courtly figures — including several women — cluster behind them beneath a fleur-de-lis banner, the whole composition bristling with questions of faith and power. "Si deus pro nobis, quis contra nos?" — "If God is for us, who can be against us?" — sets an appropriately charged tone for what promises to be a gripping chapter in this saga of medieval French royalty.