ALT One of the closing illustration pages of Strange Cases, the debut graphic novel from the popular illustrator Riotbones. The story's protagonist, a young law student in a formal fin de siècle three-piece suit, holds the symbolic scales of justice as a grand Victorian cityscape burns at his back. The overlaid text reads: But churches are burning and saints are crumbling, reborn in altars of barricades where the people rise instead of sink. As the tide swells, the world will shift: a slow but inevitable, merciless dawn that will consume the long, dark night.