Transmetropolitan #52

A chaotic street brawl erupts across the cover of Transmetropolitan #52, with a wild tangle of punk-inflected city dwellers — including a towering woman with a massive afro, a bald figure in dark clothes, a masked brawler in an American-flag jacket, and a green-haired onlooker — all caught mid-melee alongside a snarling wolf leaping overhead and a snapping creature underfoot. Glenn Fabry's cover art crackles with kinetic energy, capturing the anarchic urban intensity that Warren Ellis's writing and Darick Robertson's interior art made a hallmark of this Vertigo series by 2002. Part one of "The Cure" story arc, this issue is a fine entry point into the sprawling, future-city madness that defined Transmetropolitan at its peak.