Before Watchmen: Rorschach #3

The penultimate chapter of Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo's Before Watchmen: Rorschach arrives with a cover that says everything without showing much — a figure pinned beneath splintered wood, with Rorschach's distinctive boot sole pressed into the debris, suggests someone (or something) has been brought crashing down hard. Bermejo's painterly rendering makes even shattered lumber feel visceral and tense, with the masked detective's presence implied through that single, unmistakable shoe. It's a quietly unsettling image that captures the grim, street-level tone this 2013 miniseries has made its own.