Astro City #51

Something unsettling lurks beneath Astro City's streets in issue #51, and Alex Ross's cover makes that viscerally clear — a dark, insectoid creature with glowing red eyes crouches menacingly in a damp brick tunnel, looming over a prone figure while ghostly, hollow-eyed forms drift overhead in the shadows. The deep blues and teals that Ross layers across the scene give the whole image a cold, subterranean dread that fits the story title "Down in the Depths" perfectly. With Kurt Busiek writing and Brent E. Anderson on interior art, this April 2018 Vertigo installment promises the kind of richly atmospheric storytelling that has always set Astro City apart.