Angel: Barbary Coast #3

The third chapter of IDW's Angel: Barbary Coast arrives with a cover by Franco Urru that's as unsettling as it is arresting — a cracked, blood-spattered photograph lying amid debris, its image showing a dark-caped woman mid-scream, surrounded by monstrous, otherworldly figures looming from the chaos behind her. The aged, distressed quality of the photo-within-a-cover composition gives the whole thing a haunting, vintage atmosphere perfectly suited to this historical horror series. If the tension has been building through the first two issues, this 2010 IDW release makes clear that something truly dire is at hand.