Brink #5

Dan Abnett and I.N.J. Culbard's grim sci-fi series returns with Book Five, and the cover sets a stark, unsettling tone: a lone figure stands with their back to us, looking down at three uniformed bodies sprawled across the ground in spreading pools of blood. Culbard's cool teal-and-shadow palette makes the red all the more striking, lending the scene a quiet, forensic dread that the Brink series does so well. If you've been following humanity's desperate survival in the habitat stations, this 2022 volume looks like a compulsive next chapter.