The Conviction arc is set in the Tower of Conviction, a Holy See stronghold that doubles as a torture chamber. Miura drew its arches from real-world Gothic cathedrals — Reims, Chartres, the cracked rose windows of bombed-out Cologne.
We keep a folder on the studio wall: photographs of stained glass, rubbings of medieval brass, a colour study of the long red that runs through Dürer's engravings. It is the visual register we draw from when laying out a new drop.
Reading list, in order of usefulness for this work: Eco's The Name of the Rose. Huysmans' Là-Bas. Gaiman's Sandman: Season of Mists. Pages 200 through 400 of the Berserk Conviction omnibus. The last twenty pages of Blood Meridian.