Art Ops #4

The fourth issue of Vertigo's Art Ops arrives in March 2016 with a cover that immediately commands attention — a glamorous blonde woman dominates the image, her face overlaid with a dramatic spider-web of shattered glass, one eye obscured by the bullet-point impact. Clustered below her are three smaller figures — a young man, a dark-haired woman, and a blue-haired girl with glasses — alongside a mysterious, faceless figure in a sleek suit, all rendered in Michael Allred's clean, pop-art-inflected line work. Writer Shaun Simon and the Allred team continue their offbeat Vertigo adventure here, and if this cover is any indication, "Galactic Gang Rayguns" promises the same stylish, wonderfully strange energy that's made this series such a standout.