C.O.W.L. #11

The tension in this 2015 Image series reaches a sharp edge with issue #11, "The Greater Good — Chapter 5: Coming to Terms." The cover presents a striking graphic tableau: a suited figure with blank, glowing eyes looms large and imposing in the background, while a second figure in a bowler hat hunches over a document labeled "CONTRACT" — the power dynamic between them rendered in bold, angular silhouettes that feel ripped from a mid-century noir poster. Rod Reis's painted artwork gives the whole composition a moody, near-monochromatic palette that perfectly captures the labor-politics-meets-superheroics heart of C.O.W.L.