Dark Horse Presents #96

Dark Horse Presents #96 offers a quietly compelling street-level cover by Stefano Gaudiano — a young boy named Philip, camera in hand and name tag on his shirt, stands on a city sidewalk beside a bespectacled man talking on a pay phone, while a red-haired woman in overalls passes behind them. The naturalistic, almost painterly rendering gives the whole scene a grounded, slice-of-life warmth that feels refreshingly different from typical 1995 superhero fare. Inside, Ed Brubaker and Gaudiano bring that same sensibility to "A Pot Full of Noodles!" — a title that promises something personal and unexpected from this reliable anthology series.