100 Bullets #73

Dave Johnson's cover for issue #73 sets a tense, stylized mood: a lone suited figure walks away, a pistol dropping from one hand, while circular saw-blade emblems spelling out "CROATOA" orbit him against a murky golden backdrop marked with a skull-and-crossbones. It's a striking visual shorthand for the shadowy conspiracies at the heart of Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso's acclaimed Vertigo crime series. "A Wake Part Four" promises that whatever reckoning has been building is very much still in motion.