Cory Doctorow's Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now #5

Ashley Wood's cover for this fifth issue of Cory Doctorow's Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now is a striking study in tension — a line of eerily blank-faced robots advances from the left while a lone human figure, gun in hand, faces them down from the shadowy right side of the composition. Wood's loose, inky linework gives the scene a raw, almost sketched urgency, blending stark black-and-white robotics with smudged, atmospheric rendering for the human figure. Inside, writer Cory Doctorow and co-writer Dara Naraghi team with artist Erich Owen to bring the "I, Robot" adaptation to life in this 2008 IDW release.