Cerebus #252

This twenty-first chapter of the "Going Home" arc takes a quietly striking approach to its cover, with Gerhard's photorealistic rendering of a weathered stone wall and a small barred window doing the atmospheric heavy lifting. The ancient masonry — mossy, cracked, and deeply textured — evokes a sense of confinement or threshold that feels entirely at home in Dave Sim and Gerhard's long-running saga. It's a moody, understated image that stands apart from typical superhero fare and reflects the artistic confidence Aardvark-Vanaheim brought to the series in 2000.