Copperhead #7

Jay Faerber and Scott Godlewski's sci-fi western continues with this quietly affecting seventh issue, its cover showing a red-haired woman in a lavender coat clutching a small bouquet of wilted flowers beneath a crescent moon — her expression uncertain, almost reluctant, as alien flora and a gnarled tree loom in the shadowy background. There's real emotional weight in that image, the frontier setting feeling both strange and strangely familiar. Ron Riley's muted, earthy colors give the whole scene a somber, late-night mood that sets this issue apart from straightforward genre fare.