Black Magick #1

Greg Rucka and Nicola Scott launch Black Magick with a cover that immediately establishes its dual-world premise: a sharp-eyed woman holds a Portsmouth Police badge — number 0333 — directly in front of her face, the pentagram star at its center echoing something older and stranger than law enforcement. Rendered in moody near-monochrome with only subtle warmth bleeding into the background, Nicola Scott's artwork signals a series where the procedural and the occult are inseparable. "Awakening" feels like exactly the right title for a story that promises to pull two very different lives into sharp, unsettling focus.