Chew #54

Rob Guillory's cover for Chew #54 throws you straight into a rodeo gone wonderfully wrong — a determined rider in a red shirt clings on as a teal, blue-spotted bull bucks wildly beneath him, sending his black hat sailing through the air against a blazing orange backdrop. Tucked into a circle portrait in the corner is a scowling cowboy clown in a red plaid shirt and dark sunglasses, watching the chaos unfold. John Layman and Guillory's long-running Image series has always had a gift for blending the absurd with genuine stakes, and this issue's "Chapter 4" looks to keep that streak very much alive.