Minor Arcana #17 Review: Jeff Lemire’s BOOM! Studios Series Turns “The Lovers” Into Something Haunted

Minor Arcana #17 continues Jeff Lemire’s emotionally strange, supernatural slow burn with “The Lovers: Part Two,” a chapter that leans hard into regret, memory, romantic damage, and the eerie feeling that the past is not done speaking. This issue is not built like a loud horror comic. It is quieter, sadder, and more personal. That is exactly why it works. Lemire uses tarot imagery, fractured relationships, and dreamlike pacing to turn Minor Arcana #17 into one of the series’ more emotionally loaded chapters. Readers who have followed our earlier coverage of Minor Arcana #1 and Minor Arcana #10 will find issue #17 pushing the series deeper into the emotional cost of its magic. Minor Arcana #17 Continues “The Lovers: Part Two” BOOM! Studios’ Minor Arcana #17 is written by Jeff Lemire, illustrated by Jeff Lemire and Letizia Cadonici, colored by Patricio Delpeche, and lettered by Steve Wands. The issue features cover art by Lemire, a tarot card variant cover by Lemire, variant cover art by Annie Wu, and an unlimited variant cover by Annie Wu. The issue opens around the idea of searching for someone inside a strange, broken, almost impossible space. The early pages carry a haunted-house...