Heavy Liquid

 By Paul Pope

Pope draws a grimy urban world that’s forever shifting like S, his Mick Jagger–looking protagonist, who comes into possession of a rare space metal that’s both drug and priceless art material. As a group of thugs chases S from New York to Paris, an art collector hires him to track down a sculptor, who transforms the heavy liquid while S boils down a few grams for his own recreational use and discovers that it’s something much more than the world’s greatest high.