The eighty-fourth comic: #496 XIII: The Day of the Black Sun
An amnesiac man washes up on the shore of an American village. As he's being nursed to health, assassins attack. From there on, the story of XIII - named after the Roman numeral tattooed on his collar bone - begins. He gets immersed in a president's assassination as he tries to unravel the plot while also understanding his past.
It's a fairly easy to understand plot and the comic does well with it. While the book officially only covers the first issue, or (I suppose) the first arc, it doesn't provide you with all the answers. Rather, it gives you a decent idea of what's happening and more layers get revealed as time goes on. It never comes as quite unexpected or a way to keep the story going, but grows naturally from step to step (although some reveals are more telegraphed than others). It gets through it at a nice pace and while I haven't finished the whole run yet, it feels clear that it would have ended when the truth fully comes out. There's quite a bit of repetition in the basic get captured => get cornered => get rescued set up, but XIII is competent enough that there are enough variations on it.
The art looks quite good, in the realistic Belgo-French style that I know quite well. It's a great way to position the characters and adds to the gritty action feel. I'm going to keep going with this series - at this point I might as well see it through to the end.