Jonny Double #1

Vertigo's 1998 noir miniseries kicks off with a sharp, moody first issue from writer Brian Azzarello and artist Eduardo Risso. Mark Chiarello's cover sets the tone perfectly: a white-haired man in a rumpled suit stands pensively with a gun pressed to his cheek, surrounded by scattered hundred-dollar bills, a body slumped at his feet, and the Golden Gate Bridge looming in a fiery orange dusk behind him. The tagline — "It was a perfect plan except for one thing: Never trust anyone under thirty" — promises exactly the kind of world-weary, San Francisco-drenched crime story this image so confidently delivers.