Cerebus #77

This August 1985 issue of Dave Sim and Gerhard's long-running Aardvark-Vanaheim series presents a striking cover that feels genuinely surreal: Cerebus, the aardvark-barbarian-turned-political-figure, stands draped in flowing robes atop a vast, cracked stone plaza, while a large chess knight looms nearby and the word "Transformations" is etched into the fractured ground beneath him. A tall statue rises behind him, and the whole scene carries an air of uneasy grandeur — something shifting, something at stake. With "Odd Transformations" as the story title, this issue promises the kind of quietly ambitious storytelling that made Cerebus one of the most distinctive ongoing series of its era.