Cerebus #258

This twenty-seventh chapter of the "Going Home" arc arrives with a cover by Gerhard that forgoes illustrated characters entirely in favor of a brooding photographic landscape — dark, forested mountain slopes dissolving into low-hanging mist and pale sky. The spare, almost meditative image carries a real emotional weight, letting the natural world do the heavy lifting in a way that feels quietly bold for a 2000 comics cover. Dave Sim and Gerhard's long-running Aardvark-Vanaheim series continues to prove that Cerebus is a work willing to take chances at every turn.