Rex Mundi #3

The imposing stone columns and muted period palette of Eric J's cover for Rex Mundi #3 set a distinctly noir tone, depicting a tall, bald man in a long coat standing at the center of a crowd of darkly dressed figures — including a woman in a wide-brimmed black hat — gathered outside what appears to be a grand civic building. Writer Arvid Nelson and colorist Jeromy Cox contribute to a 2003 series that blends historical atmosphere with quiet menace, and the title alone — "The Archbishop and the Pimp" — promises the kind of unexpected collision that makes this Image series so hard to put down.