Lessons of Darkness, Paperback

While the members of team 21 are enjoying a night off together in Los Angeles, a terrorist group manipulated by a nihilist billionaire triggers a bloody riot downtown. Ian and the other SRS agents are ordered to secure a highly exclusive mall and its wealthy customers - ignoring any danger to the rest of the population. A decision that is not at all to Ian's taste, as his programming is quite clear: help others.

Fabien Vehlmann got into comics by flooding Spirou Magazine with proposed scripts until he was accepted. Since then he's proven his mettle with such hits as Green Manor and a Spirou one-off, before becoming in 2009 the new official team for Dupuis' flagship series with Yoann. His biggest hit is award-winning series Alone, illustrated by Bruno Gazzotti. Ralph Meyer has been passionate about comics since very early in his life, and was influenced as much by the European scene as by the American one. He created the critically acclaimed Berceuse Assassine with Tome, and Clear Blue Tomorrows with Vehlmann and Gazzotti.