Bang! Tango #4

The fourth chapter of Vertigo's six-part crime series arrives with a cover by Howard Chaykin that's as stylish as it is unsettling — a tuxedo-clad figure wearing a grotesque black mask dips a blonde woman in a black lace dress amid a shower of scattered pills, the whole scene bathed in an eerie purple haze. That collision of ballroom elegance and menace perfectly captures the series' pulpy sensibility, and with Joe Kelly writing alongside artists Adrian Sibar and Rodney Ramos on interiors, the story promises to match its striking visual attitude. "La Caida" — The Fall — suggests this penultimate stretch of the series is headed somewhere dark and compelling.