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Nobody is safe from their bad dreams in The Nightmare Brigade. This graphic novel series, written by Franck Thilliez and illustrated by Yomgui Dumon, quietly blew me away when I stumbled on it a few months ago. What begins as a story about battling nightmares quickly reveals a deeper question: Who has the right to mess with someone else’s dreams?
At the center is Professor Angus, the mastermind behind a secretive psy-ops program. His mission? Rescue kids from recurring nightmares and reshape the dream worlds where their fears live. Though Angus created the program, the story truly belongs to Estevan—a lost boy with no memory of where he came from. While those around him don’t seem troubled, readers are left in the dark—and that mystery lingers across all four volumes. It isn’t ignored, just… deferred. And the deeper you read, the more you wonder whether the truth is something even this hero can handle.