Cerebus #248

The seventeenth chapter of "Going Home" arrives with a hauntingly tranquil cover by Gerhard — a misty, overcast photograph of a still river winding past dense, bare-branched trees, its hushed atmosphere a quiet contrast to the ambitions of a long-running saga now well into its 248th issue. The melancholy beauty of that fog-softened landscape sets a reflective, almost elegiac mood that feels entirely fitting for a story arc called "Going Home." Dave Sim and Gerhard's ongoing collaboration at Aardvark-Vanaheim continued in 1999 to push the boundaries of self-published comics, and this understated cover suggests there's something genuinely poignant waiting inside.