Ugly #5

A lone figure in a long coat and tie — with the unsettling head of a dark, horned beast — strides through a blighted landscape of bare, skeletal trees against a sky churning with fiery oranges and deep reds. Creator Joakim Lindengren conjures an atmosphere that sits somewhere between noir thriller and waking nightmare, and the Granfinger subtitle hints at something grimly specific lurking beneath that haunting exterior. This 2023 installment from Kartago förlag is a striking piece of Swedish comics storytelling that rewards anyone drawn to the darkly surreal.