Elephantmen #43

Sleeping Partners Part Two" arrives in this 2012 Image Comics installment of Richard Starkings and Axel Medellin's ongoing series, with a cover by Brandon Graham that's a genuine delight to get lost in. Graham renders a hippo-man in shirt and suspenders sharing a rooftop meal with a blue-haired human companion, their table spread with tea and fruit against a sprawling, intricately detailed futurist cityscape buzzing with flying vehicles and neon signage — including a wall tagged "Elephantmen Only." It's a cover that balances the quiet intimacy of two figures at breakfast with the sheer density of a world that clearly has a lot more going on just beyond the frame.