Abe Sapien: The Drowning #5

The fifth and final chapter of "The Drowning" arrives with a strikingly spare cover from Mike Mignola — a ornate golden dagger, its face-adorned hilt crumbling into scattered fragments against a deep black void, conveying both power and dissolution with quiet menace. It's a beautifully restrained image that signals a reckoning for Abe Sapien as this 2008 Dark Horse miniseries reaches its conclusion. With Mignola writing and Jason Shawn Alexander bringing the interior pages to life, this is moody supernatural storytelling at its most atmospheric.