Codename Baboushka #4

Part four of "The Conclave of Death" arrives with a cover that's all sleek menace — a black silhouette of a red-haired woman raises a pistol, blood spattering dramatically against a stark white background, with a serene matryoshka doll face looming behind her. Shari Chankhamma's cover design is striking in its minimalism, reducing Baboushka to pure graphic tension: shadow, crimson, and implied violence. Antony Johnston's spy thriller continues to look like one of Image's sharpest genre offerings from 2016.