'76 #3

Issue three of Image's '76 leans hard into the era's funky energy, with two sharp, bell-bottomed women taking center stage — one gripping a revolver and a briefcase, the other standing cool and confident with an afro and a utility belt — surrounded by a collage of rougher characters, including armed men and a figure caught mid-chase, all rendered in warm amber and earth tones that scream 1970s. Ed Tadem's cover work captures the decade's distinctive aesthetic with a poster-art sensibility that feels right at home in 2008's renewed appreciation for retro style. B. Clay Moore and Tadem's crime-flavored series is hitting its stride, and this chapter promises the kind of gritty, street-level drama the cover telegraphs so well.