Despite the copious captions, this story moves pretty quickly. The main character visits an art museum and discovers that he can see the hidden patterns of the world, as you do. On the next page, we discover that the man in the last panel is actually drawing a body outline on the street – which the main character lands in perfectly when he falls out of a window.

This is one of those stories where the art style works really well for the subject matter. The white on black gives the artist room to put random designs in the black space, plus the aforementioned chalk design in the last two panels.

(Heavy Metal issue #137, March 1992 – Page 73 Cipher by Teare)