Army@Love #10

Vertigo's sharp satire rolls on with Army@Love #10, and the cover — penciled by Rick Veitch and inked by Gary Erskine — says it all with a deadpan smirk: a golfer in argyle sweater and knee-high socks follows through on a confident swing, his one leg a gleaming prosthetic, while a field of wrecked military hardware — tanks, aircraft debris, scattered ordinance — serves as his casual backdrop. Booklist called the series "a bracing dose of topical cynicism," and this image earns that description effortlessly, pairing country-club leisure with the detritus of war in one perfectly composed, unsettling tableau. If you've been following Veitch and Erskine's biting commentary on conflict and consumerism, issue #10 keeps the series in fine, provocative form.