Sin City: The Big Fat Kill #4

Frank Miller's Sin City: The Big Fat Kill reaches its penultimate chapter with this striking fourth issue, featuring a dark-clad woman diving headlong toward the viewer, a katana raised in one hand and a blade in the other — all confidence and lethal grace against a brooding grey backdrop. The cover's tagline says it plainly: "She'll cut you quick. She'll kill you quiet. You won't feel a thing." Miller handles every creative role himself — writing, art, inking, and lettering — and that singular vision gives the whole series its razor-sharp atmosphere, very much on display here in 1995.