A.D.: After Death #1

Scott Snyder and Jeff Lemire team up for this oversized first book of A.D.: After Death, a 2016 Image Comics series that blends prose and comics storytelling. The cover, illustrated by Lemire, is quietly arresting — a white human silhouette set against a vivid orange background, with a bare, deeply rooted tree rendered in stark black at its center, suggesting themes of life, mortality, and what might persist beyond both. It's a beautifully restrained opening statement for what promises to be a thoughtful, unconventional work.