Cerebus #84

This March 1986 issue from Aardvark-Vanaheim presents a genuinely unsettling domestic scene rendered with remarkable craft by Dave Sim and Gerhard. A ghostly, blonde-haired figure in a white costume bursts through a darkened doorway, reaching toward a silhouetted man seated at a kitchen table, while a small, dark figure — Cerebus himself — lurks at the table's edge. The moody, shadow-heavy composition gives the kitchen setting an eerie intimacy that perfectly suits the story's intriguing dual title, "Chariot of the Queen; Chariot of the Lovers.