Black Hammer Reborn #9

A silver-haired man raises a gleaming mechanical fist with a wide, unsettling grin — framed by a circular portal radiating sickly yellow-green energy — and the image crackles with menace right from the cover of this ninth chapter in Jeff Lemire's Black Hammer Reborn. Caitlin Yarsky's linework gives the figure a sharp, almost theatrical intensity, while Dave Stewart's color work makes that eerie glow feel genuinely foreboding. If this issue's cover is any indication, the world of Black Hammer is heading somewhere darker and more dangerous in 2022.