Martin Mystère #409 (2024) p 6-7: Sabotaged by Gankerl

This reminds me of the scene in the first X-Men film in which the bad guys halt Logan's driving on a snowy road by dropping...

“A tree trunk right in the middle of the road! Let's try to get it out of here.”

“Rghrr...rghmm...”

“Damn! This isn't easy!”

“It wasn't snowfall that felled the tree. This is the cut of a chainsaw.”

“Devils from hell! Someone is sabotaging us!”

The creatures watching them are “Gankerl,” basically the Bavarian version of yeti. Now we flash back to “One week earlier…”

“Good morning everyone, we are in Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria. And the woman you see in the picture is Elisabeth Amalia Eugenia di Wittelsbach, Duchess of Bavaria, born in Munich on December 24, 1837.”

Throughout this section of the story, Martin provides historical exposition for the reader, in the form of a television documentary.

Sforza obviously put lots of effort into making these two very different pages both look great, to get the story off on the right foot.