Black Hammer #11

A lone silhouetted girl stands between bare, skeletal trees as rippling energy waves emanate from her outstretched hand, while a massive, horned demon looms over a ghostly cityscape in the background — and a hammer rests forgotten in the foreground dirt. Jeff Lemire and Dean Ormston's Black Hammer continues to deliver this kind of quietly unsettling imagery, with Dave Stewart's muted palette giving the scene an eerie, dreamlike weight. Issue #11 arrives in 2017 with all the hallmarks of a series that knows exactly how to make the strange feel deeply human.