Deep Cuts #2

Set against the neon glow of Chicago's Emerald Mill club in 1928, this second issue of Image's Deep Cuts opens with a striking cover: a sharp-dressed woman in a green pinstripe suit sits at a Steinway piano, pen in hand, sheet music on her lap, smoke curling through the air around her. The tagline "Sorry, But I Can't Take You" hangs beneath the scene with just the right amount of intrigue, hinting at a story steeped in jazz-age atmosphere and quiet tension. With Kyle Higgins, Joe Clark, Helena Masellis, Igor Monti, and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou driving this series, Deep Cuts is shaping up to be one of the more stylishly realized period crime books on shelves in 2023.