Death and the Compass

In Borges’ Death and the Compass, Detective Lönnrot investigates occult murders forming a triangle. Suspecting a Kabbalistic pattern, he predicts a fourth point at a villa, only to find his nemesis, Red Scharlach. The "clues" were a geometric labyrinth designed to lure Lönnrot to his execution. Ron Revog (creator of The Mysterious Spider-Man) adapts this into a visceral graphic novel. Using stark, angular paneling to mirror the story’s rigid logic, Revog leans into a pulp-noir aesthetic, transforming the climax at Triste-le-Roy into a dizzying visual nightmare of inevitability.