Uptight #5

The fifth installment of Jordan Crane's acclaimed Fantagraphics anthology arrives with a cover that stops you cold: a suited figure tumbles helplessly through a deep-purple cosmos, bright red droplets scattering through the void around them, a ringed planet looming in the distance. The mood is somewhere between dreamlike and quietly harrowing — the kind of image that lodges itself in your memory long after you've set the book down. If 2016's Uptight #5 is any indication, Crane's singular vision of dread and beauty remains as compelling as ever.