Berlin is one of the great epics of the comics medium. Jason Lutes creates an intricate look at the German metropolis during the Jazz Age, seen through the eyes of its residents. Their lives intersect at the crossroads of kindness and crulty, love and hate, sex and death. The city of Berlin itself comes alive, with its smoke-filled salons, crumbling sidewalks, bustling train sations, and raucous nightclubs. During the Weimar Republic, Berlin was the progressive center of Europe, where creativity, political thought, and sexual liberty burned bright before being snuffed out under the boot heel of fascism. Devastatingly relevant and beautifully executed.