Sin City: Hell and Back #4

Part four of nine in Frank Miller's Sin City: Hell and Back — subtitled "A Sin City Love Story" — and the cover captures that tension beautifully: a bruised, weary man in a rumpled jacket utters "But, ma'am… I barely know you…" while a woman faces away from us, her body language doing plenty of talking on its own. Miller's stark linework, rendered here in his signature spare palette, distills the whole noir-romance premise into a single charged moment that makes you want to know exactly how these two got here.