The Black Lamb #4

Four issues into DC's Helix miniseries, The Black Lamb #4 (February 1997) delivers a cover that commands attention: a hooded, cloaked warrior stands against a blood-red sky, gripping a long spear and wearing layered armor adorned with a skull emblem, keys, and medallions, while bats wheel ominously in the crimson distance. Timothy Truman — handling both pencils and inks — brings a raw, textured intensity to the figure that feels somewhere between dark fantasy and hardboiled science fiction. With a story titled "They Saved Walt Whitman's Brain," this penultimate chapter of the six-issue series promises the kind of strange, ambitious storytelling that made Helix one of 1997's more adventurous imprints.