Stunning art of course: expressive characters, top notch posing and gesture. It’s a delight to see the antics of Guimly.
I’m not partial to the Arab setting though, and there is little of the supernatural here.
Percevan and Kervin head to Arabia in search of a missing knight. They are captured by slavers and soon split up, Kervin escaping only to be imprisoned by the mad “lord of the dunes,” and Percevan sold to a local sheik.
The plot is good, up until the end, with plenty of twists, mystery, and danger. Percevan battles his way from captivity with the help of a fellow slave and some lepers, while Kervin travels with the strange madman. They eventually meet in a huge sandstorm.
The climax is weak and arrives abruptly; we never learn the identity of the dune lord, nor the secret of el-jerada, a mysterious force which drags people under the sands.