Freaks' Squeele

The penultimate volume of Florent Maudoux's cult series opens with the gates to the underworld left standing open, releasing demons and ghosts across the city. With the living sword Claidheamor trapped below, Professor Funerals leads a rescue party down through the seven infernal levels, while Dean Scipio goes looking for Shadow Wolf and Xiong Mao, lost on a romantic excursion and suffering memory loss. Freaks' Squeele continues to combine superhero parody, manga influence and French comics tradition in a mixture nothing else quite matches.