B.P.R.D., Plague of Frogs #5

The penultimate chapter of Mike Mignola and Guy Davis's "Plague of Frogs" arc arrives with a cover that splits its mood beautifully in two: a heavily equipped, darkly silhouetted figure looms large from a low angle above, while below, a woman in Victorian dress stands at a table surrounded by a group of stern-faced men — all rendered in Guy Davis's precise, atmospheric linework. The contrast between the brooding present-day agent and that candlelit, period-dress gathering gives the issue an unsettling sense of history colliding with the supernatural. It's a fittingly ominous sendoff into the final stretch of one of B.P.R.D.'s most ambitious 2004 storylines.