Casanova #7

Gabriel Bá's cover for issue #7 of Matt Fraction and Gabriel Bá's stylish spy series delivers a striking image: a tall, sharply dressed figure raises a cocktail glass while holding a pistol at his side, a woman clinging to his leg as twin orange suns loom large behind them against a darkened control-room backdrop. The warm amber-and-purple palette gives everything a cool, lounge-noir atmosphere perfectly suited to a story titled "Women and Men (Part Two)." At just $1.99 in 2006, this Image series was already showing off one of the sharpest visual sensibilities in comics.