American Vampire #33

Rafael Albuquerque's hauntingly spare cover for this January 2013 Vertigo issue says volumes with almost nothing — a lone figure slumped over an old gramophone, lost in music rendered as a cascade of blood-red notes curling upward into white silence. It's a quietly melancholy image that feels like a final exhale, fitting for the sixth and concluding chapter of "The Blacklist" arc from Scott Snyder and Albuquerque. If you've been following this storyline, this is the issue you've been building toward.