Cerebus #262

The stark, wintry photograph on Gerhard's cover — bare branches overhead, a frozen river curving through a snow-blanketed landscape shrouded in pale mist — sets a quietly haunting tone for this thirty-first chapter of "Going Home." There's a stillness here that feels deliberate and contemplative, the kind of hushed winter scene that carries real emotional weight. With Dave Sim and Gerhard collaborating on the interiors as well, issue #262 from January 2001 is a compelling entry in one of comics' most ambitious long-form narratives.