This is a story about Marco Polo being entrusted to deliver a princess from the house of Kublai Khan to a Persian noble for a political marriage. Of course, he is having an affair with said woman. Spoiler: the unicorn turns out to be a rhino.

Although there are a lot of historical inaccuracies in this story, the junks are beautifully rendered. It feels like that’s one of the things the artist was really looking forward to drawing so the writer made sure they were all over the script.

(Heavy Metal issue #151, July 1994 – Page 38 The Unicorn’s Reflection by De Blas and Azpiri)