Minor Arcana #15

Issue fifteen of Jeff Lemire and Patricio Delpeche's Minor Arcana arrives from Boom! Studios with a cover that feels genuinely unsettling in the best way — a wide-eyed young woman in a trench coat stands surrounded by floating puzzle pieces, each one bearing a different face, as though the people in her life are literally fragmenting around her. Lemire's loose, expressive linework gives the whole image a raw emotional charge, the watercolor blues behind her amplifying that sense of disorientation. "The Ballad of Budd St. Pierre: 1981-1983" promises a story rooted in a specific time and person, and this cover makes the mystery of how it all fits together feel genuinely compelling.