Battlefields: Dear Billy #2

The second chapter of Garth Ennis's wartime "Dear Billy" arc arrives with a hauntingly beautiful cover by John Cassaday — a woman's face rendered in deep blues gazes downward against a star-filled night sky, while WWII-era aircraft sit silhouetted on the airfield below. The contrast between that intimate, melancholy portrait and the machinery of war beneath her gives the image a quiet emotional weight that feels entirely at home in Ennis's brand of human-scale conflict storytelling. With Peter Snejbjerg on interior art and colors by Rob Steen, this 2009 Dynamite mature-readers series continues to promise something more personal and reflective than your typical war comic.