Crumpet Ladies [Actus Box] #[nn]

Rutu Modan's *The Panty Killer*, part of the Actus Box Series from Actus Tragicus, presents a striking painted cover that sets an immediately unsettling tone — a young man in a green jacket holds up a pink undergarment with an oddly detached expression, while a looming, shadowy face watches from above and a blue-clad figure tumbles on a staircase behind him. The painterly, almost theatrical composition makes this 2001 release feel like a noir fever dream filtered through a distinctly literary-comics sensibility.