Cerebus #140

Two figures — one in a pale suit, one in dark formal wear — stand close together beneath a glowing gas lamp on a quiet cobblestone street, the blue-grey façades of old European buildings rising around them in the night. It's a hauntingly atmospheric cover from Dave Sim and Gerhard, whose collaboration here trades spectacle for mood, rendering shadow and lamplight with quietly remarkable care. This November 1990 opener to the "Melmoth" arc signals a thoughtful, literary turn in the long-running Cerebus saga.