Transmetropolitan #12

Concluding the "Freeze Me With Your Kiss" arc, this 1998 DC/Helix issue puts Spider Jerusalem front and center in a tense, crouched stance — bald, sunglassed, and clearly furious — clutching a glowing canister with a human face visible inside it. Darick Robertson's cover art captures the raw menace of the City's most dangerous journalist perfectly, the eerie amber light of that container contrasting sharply with the grimy urban backdrop. Warren Ellis and Robertson deliver a finale that practically radiates unresolved anger and strange, unsettling humanity all at once.