Blame!, Volume 1 - Tsutomu Nihei

As a comics writer, Nihei's no great shakes at character development or plot. But as an artist, a conjurer of vast, biomechanical labyrinths festering with grime and hidden secrets, he is second to none. BLAME! is his first work, and perhaps the purest example of his style: a man alone in the midst of a constantly shifting and regenerating dystopian city, dwarfed by his surroundings and threatened by creatures that loom over the pages. Republished in a larger edition, this is an idiosyncratic classic of the comics form presented the way it was always meant to be read.