Haha #3

Issue three of Image's HAHA series presents a cover that's quietly heartbreaking and darkly funny all at once — a gaunt, wide-eyed clown in a red-and-white striped shirt and beret pressed against a graffiti-tagged brick wall, his body language hovering somewhere between panic and mime performance. A weathered "REMEMBER" poster featuring a sad clown face hangs nearby, while a garbage can and a cardboard box of discarded odds and ends round out this lonely alley tableau. Langridge's linework gives the whole scene a rubbery, expressive energy that makes this 2021 anthology series one of the more thoughtful and distinctive takes on clown-centric storytelling in recent memory.