Bloodhound #6

Dave Johnson's cover for Bloodhound #6 makes an immediate impression — a massively built, long-haired figure straining against heavy chains wrapped around his body, rendered in a striking all-orange palette against a stark black background, with "LOCKDOWN!" blazoned across the bottom. The police-tape banner framing the title sets the gritty, crime-procedural tone that earned Warren Ellis's blurb right there on the cover: "Four-color crime and punishment like they just don't make anymore." With Dan Jolley writing, Leonard Kirk on interior art, and Robin Riggs inking, this 2005 DC series was delivering something genuinely different — hard-edged and uncompromising in a way that still feels bracing.