Stray Bullets: Sunshine & Roses #34

David Lapham's Stray Bullets: Sunshine & Roses continues its gritty, emotionally charged run with issue #34, titled "I Am Your Friend." The cover, drawn and inked by Lapham himself, pulls you in close with two figures locked in a passionate — or perhaps desperate — kiss, one speaking words that feel too quiet for the moment, framed against the claustrophobic interior of what looks like a trailer or cramped room. It's the kind of intimate tension Lapham renders so well: warmth and unease occupying exactly the same space.