American Caper #5

American Caper #5 brings this Absurd Ventures series from Dark Horse to its penultimate tension with a cover that practically crackles with attitude. Tyler Boss's artwork centers on a tattooed blonde woman in a black dress holding a bloodied knife, flanked by a gas-masked, American-flag-patched soldier on one side and a young woman brandishing a pistol on the other, while two frightened children cower in the background against a wide-open mountain landscape — and a lone bison grazes, unbothered, in the distance. It's a sharply composed tableau that balances menace and dark humor in exactly the way this series has made its calling card.