Transmetropolitan #29

Spider Jerusalem crouches amid file boxes labeled "Source," "Lies," and "Informr," cigarette lit and a can in hand, his heavily tattooed frame radiating the coiled intensity of a journalist who's seen too much and forgiven none of it. A skull rests near his feet alongside a keyboard, quietly reinforcing the lived-in chaos of a man who weaponizes information for a living. Tony Harris and Jim Royal deliver a commanding cover portrait for "Lonely City, Two of Three," the second chapter of a three-part arc by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson that was pushing Vertigo's mature-readers label to its sharpest edge in January 2000.