Cover #4

David Mack's cover for issue #4 of Cover is a quietly arresting piece of mixed-media art — a human silhouette built from layered horizontal strips, each revealing a different watercolor face rendered in cool blues and warm reds, interspersed with fragments of heavily redacted official correspondence. The fractured, stacked portraits suggest themes of hidden identity and multiplicity that feel right at home in this Jinxworld espionage series from Brian Michael Bendis and Mack. It's a visually inventive issue from a series that Paradox called "a relentlessly impressive example of the possibilities of the comic book medium.