Black Badge #4

A scout uniform covered in dozens of hand-painted merit badges tells its own unsettling story on Matt Kindt's cover for this fourth chapter — the patches depict everything from skulls and dynamite to sharks and dollar signs, hinting at a scouting organization with a very different kind of curriculum. A smear of blood near the figure's chin and the eerie masked totem hanging at the collar add just the right amount of dread to Tyler Jenkins and Hilary Jenkins's beautifully rendered watercolor world. Black Badge continues to be one of BOOM! Studios' most intriguing titles of 2018, blending childhood imagery with something far more sinister.