Elephantmen #44

From Boo Cook's warm, golden-toned cover for this Eagle Award-winning series, issue #44 brings us the third chapter of "Sleeping Partners" with a portrait that balances tenderness and looming unease. A laughing woman in a grey coat leans contentedly into a sharply dressed man with tinted shades, their easy intimacy front and center — while an enormous, trench-coated hippo-man towers behind them, his massive presence a quiet reminder that this world is anything but ordinary. Richard Starkings and Axel Medellin's Elephantmen continues to blend humanity and strangeness in ways that are hard to resist.