The first three panels provide a kind of backstory, told by a narrator who doesn’t realize he’s providing a backstory. The basic idea is that the main character, Pierre (French for stone), turns into stone during the day. At one point, he was holding the body of the woman he loved and turned into a statue.

(Heavy Metal Chaos Special, Spring 2008 – Page 107 Descur – Chapter 1: Pierre by Giordani, Laub, Campos, Merker and Nelson)