Alabaster: Wolves #3

The third chapter of Caitlín R. Kiernan, Steve Lieber, and Rachelle Rosenberg's five-part series arrives with a cover by Greg Ruth that is quietly harrowing — a silver-haired young woman in profile, blood tracing down her cheek, while a massive dark creature looms at her back, its breath and form pressing into her space with unmistakable menace. The contrast between her pale stillness and the dark, feral presence behind her gives the image a haunting, painterly weight that suits Kiernan's Southern Gothic sensibility perfectly. If the first two issues drew you in, this one makes clear the series is not letting up.