Border Town #3

A young woman in denim shorts, an orange top, and a dark jacket stands her ground at the center of this Border Town #3 cover, radiating cool defiance against a churning backdrop of skeletons and monstrous figures rendered in vivid pink. Ramon Villalobos's linework packs real intensity into that contrast — the ordinary-teenager energy of the foreground figure set against the supernatural chaos pressing in from behind. With a story titled "Número Tres: Child Sacrifices," this DC Vertigo series clearly isn't shy about the stakes, and the AV Club pull-quote on the cover — praising the book's grounding in politics and identity — hints at why Border Town resonated so strongly with readers in 2019.