Cerebus #90

The word "FIVE" dominates this stark, all-black cover, with the letters serving as windows into four intense human faces — turbaned, fez-wearing, and mustached figures peering through the negative space with a glowing light visible in the background. Dave Sim and Gerhard's cover design is genuinely clever, turning a simple title treatment into something quietly unsettling. Issue #90 of Aardvark-Vanaheim's long-running series arrives in September 1986 with the kind of confident, minimalist composition that makes you want to know exactly what's waiting inside.