This came out in late April it seems, based on its successful “kickstarter.” It’s 232pp, and evidently features work by six classic BD+ creators-- Enki Bilal, Antonio Segura, José Ortiz, Vicente Segrelles, Sergio Gerasi and Janevsky.
I first saw the cover on Mastodon, and enjoyed the way that photo was skewed a bit, but here’s a straight-ahead view if you like:
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US$30 seems like a pretty steep price ordinarily, but then again, magazine prices downright skyrocketed during the pandemic, so who knows? Also-- at 232pp, it’s arguably a dang-ol’ bargain, assuming the content is decent. Especially being a collectible and all. That said, I haven’t read it myself, yet.
As for “Cleo,” I’ve never seen her reimagined like that, but it does fit the classic aesthetic of the mag. As a history nerd/moron… eh, I’m going to say it works… somehow! :S
Not to mention, I’m pleased that it’s not just straight-cheesecake, which eventually got pretty-dang ridoinkulous in the American version, IMO. (mid-90’s, I guess)
Butttt… if you simply must see a clip of the specific art creator working on a ‘mini’ of the character, it’s here [NSFW]: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1014862657234502 [NSFW]
All that bloviated, let’s just see how things works out, yeah?
And, yet-- I do kinda *cling* to a certain cynicism which easily biases me, which is that the previous HM magazine-runners (the ones after Kevin Eastman) were near-complete idiots, running the mag pretty-much wholly as a vanity project.
(and now a moment of silence, please, while St. Caragonne blesses their pitiful posteriors, hahaha)
Of course I’ve seen this type of aviator glasses before, they’re practically a staple prop in any WW2 costume dept. The bend in the illustrated version is just so absurdly exaggerated that it defies the image that you have in your memory of how they look.
When I was a kid my dad rode a motorcycle and this was the pair of goggles he wore while riding, the image does look almost over exaggerated.