Assassin's Creed: The Fall #1

Assassin's Creed: The Fall launches this three-part DC series with a cover that immediately sets the tone — a white-hooded Assassin crouches amid the ornate onion domes and Orthodox crosses of a snow-swept Russian cityscape, red gloves and sash cutting a striking contrast against the crimson-soaked sky. The atmosphere is cold, tense, and beautifully atmospheric, with falling snow rendered against that blood-red backdrop in a way that feels both cinematic and unsettling. Writer-artists Karl Kerschl and Cameron Stewart, with colors by Nadine Thomas, open 2011 with a mature-readers adventure that promises intrigue rooted in a world far from the familiar.