Charlie Hebdo, the French satirical weekly that was the target of a brutal attack in January, was quick to respond to the wave of attacks that rocked Paris last Friday in its newest issue with a defiant statement.
The long-awaited cover for the edition, the first since Friday's attacks and set to appear Wednesday, by cartoonist Coco, depicts a dancing reveller gleefully drinking champagne as the beverage pours out of holes all over his body, according to Boston.com.
"They have the weapons - Screw them, we have the Champagne!" the caption at the bottom reads.
This comes 10 months after the attack on Charlie Hebdo's office, perpetrated by gunmen reportedly outraged by Hebdo's portrayal of the Muslim prophet Mohammed in cartoons, that left 17 dead there and elsewhere in the city, according to AFP.
In the wake of Friday's attacks for which ISIS has taken credit, Charlie Hebdo's cover demonstrates that it has no intention of backing down and stands behind France and French culture.
This isn't the first time Charlie Hebdo refused to remain quiet after a tragedy either. Even after the January attacks it kept publishing, reported CNN. A few days after the attacks, Hebdo's latest edition featured a cartoon of the prophet Mohammed with a tear on his cheek on the cover, holding a sign that read "Je Suis Charlie" ("I am Charlie"), a sympathetic expression of sadness and support for those who died in the attacks, accompanied by an ambiguous legend reading "All is forgiven."
Wednesday's edition of Charlie Hebdo also features an editorial from managing editor Riss, who was injured in the January attacks.
"Blood and tears, prophesied Churchill. That's where we are," Riss writes. "Without realising it, the Parisians of 2015 have sort of become the Londoners of 1940, determined not to yield, neither to fear nor to resignation, whatever catches them off guard."
