Sin City: Hell and Back #2

Issue two of Frank Miller's nine-part Sin City love story leans hard into the series' signature dread, with a menacing, bespectacled man thrusting an oversized syringe directly at the viewer — his speech bubble deadpanning, "Don't worry. I'm a qualified physician." Miller's stark pencils and inks give the figure a yellow-lit, close-up intensity that makes the reassurance feel anything but reassuring. A thoroughly unsettling cover for this 1999 Dark Horse Maverick series that reminds you Sin City's brand of romance comes wrapped in danger.