Scalped #35

Scalped's thirty-fifth issue arrives in March 2010 with one of the series' most haunting covers — two silhouetted figures standing in the dusty reservation light above the title, while below, a pair of entwined skeletons locked in an embrace emerges from the darkness, one still wearing a wide-brimmed hat. Jock's stark, two-toned composition splits the world of the living and the dead with quiet, unsettling poetry. Writer Jason Aaron and artist Danijel Žeželj continue their gritty Vertigo crime saga with a story titled "Listening to the Earth Turn," a phrase that perfectly matches this cover's mood of love, loss, and the weight of things buried.