Heart Throbs #[nn]

Max Cabanes's "Heart Throbs" brings his story "Roberta" to Fleetway's 1991 lineup in a volume that immediately signals something quietly extraordinary. The cover art — painted in deep blues and stormy grays — stretches across a wide coastal panorama, where a group of figures shelter beneath what appears to be a grounded or beached whale, while distant shapes drift through a moody, overcast sky. It's a hauntingly poetic image, melancholic and intimate at once, wholly the vision of Cabanes, who handled pencils, inks, colors, and the writing alongside Frank Wynne.