Incognegro: Renaissance #4

In "Part IV: Pigeons," Zane spends a night with Bette as they recover the final pieces of Xavier's manuscript, which includes unsettling passages told from the viewpoint of a pigeon. When Zane follows Douglass to uncover whether he was blackmailing Bette, the trail leads him into a hidden gay nightclub, where Douglass reveals a painful truth: he was in love with Xavier and claims Van Horn’s latest novel was partially written by him—its most haunting chapter narrated by a pigeon. Written by Mat Johnson and illustrated by Warren Pleece, with lettering by Clem Robins, the cover by Warren Pleece captures the story’s brooding, layered tension.