Vasco #18

The nineteenth volume in Gilles Chaillet's richly detailed historical series, De schaduwen van het verleden ("The Shadows of the Past") presents a striking cover where a towering skeleton looms over a crowd of medieval figures — monks, noblewomen, jesters, and warriors — bathed in an ominous red and gold atmosphere. Chaillet's linework, both penciled and inked by his own hand, gives the scene a haunting theatricality that perfectly suits a story promising dark encounters with history's long reach. Published by Le Lombard in 2001, this is Vasco at its atmospheric best.