Alabaster: The Good, the Bad, and the Bird #4

The penultimate chapter of Caitlín R. Kiernan's five-part series arrives with a cover by Greg Ruth that arrests attention immediately — a young woman, streaked with dark blood and clutching a blade, rendered upside-down against a pale, dissolving sky, with the looming silhouette of a decrepit structure above her. The inverted composition gives the image an unsettling, dreamlike gravity that feels perfectly matched to Alabaster's Southern Gothic atmosphere. With art by Daniel Warren Johnson and colors by Carlos Badilla waiting inside, this fourth installment promises the series is building toward something genuinely haunting.