Vasco #16

The sixteenth volume in Gilles Chaillet's richly realized medieval series brings Vasco face-to-face with something sinister in "Het Beest." The cover, drawn and inked by Chaillet himself, sets an immediately unsettling tone: a group of mounted and armored riders pauses at the edge of a dark, brooding forest, while in the foreground a figure in vivid orange lies motionless on the ground — a stark contrast against the cool, shadow-drenched blues of the scene. With a forbidding castle silhouetted in the misty background, this 1999 Le Lombard release promises the kind of atmospheric intrigue that makes the Vasco series such a compelling journey through the medieval world.