'76 #4

Image Comics' '76 continues with issue #4, and Ed Tadem's moody cover sets an appropriately gritty tone — a brooding figure seated amid swirling smoke and machinery looms over two other weathered characters, one crouched low in a posture that suggests tension or submission, all rendered in rich, shadowy earth tones. The composition has a painterly weight to it, with that burst of warm light cutting through the haze giving the whole scene an eerie, charged atmosphere. B. Clay Moore and Tadem's funky, street-level world from 2008 looks as compelling as ever heading into "Chapter Four.