Back to Brooklyn #[nn]

Garth Ennis and Jimmy Palmiotti bring their hard-edged crime sensibilities to Back to Brooklyn, with Mihailo Vukelic's cover setting the tone perfectly — a battered, blood-soaked man grips a sawed-off shotgun against a stark black background splashed with crimson, the Brooklyn Bridge silhouetted ominously in the title logo above him. The raw determination on his face makes it clear this is someone who has already been through hell and isn't finished yet. Vukelic handles both the writing art and colors throughout, and his gritty, painterly style gives this 2009 Image release a cinematic weight that fans of street-level crime fiction will appreciate.