Mind the Gap #17

A young woman in an elegant crimson gown clutches a streetlight pole on a rain-slicked city sidewalk, the pedestrian signal above her reading — with unsettling bluntness — "DON'T DIE / DIE." Rodin Esquejo's cover art for this seventeenth issue captures a mood of fragile defiance, the figure's expression caught somewhere between exhaustion and determination against a softly glowing urban backdrop. Mind the Gap Act II is in full swing, and this 2014 Image series continues to wrap its mystery in beautifully rendered unease.