Angel: Barbary Coast #1

IDW's Angel: Barbary Coast #1 takes the brooding vampire with a soul back to a hauntingly atmospheric waterfront setting, with tall-masted sailing ships looming through a dusky, fire-tinged harbor behind him. Franco Urru's cover art — framed like a cracked, blood-spattered photograph — gives Angel a weathered, period gravitas as he stares forward from the docks with quiet, unsettling intensity. It's a moody, evocative opening to what promises to be a dark historical chapter for one of comics' most compelling antiheroes.