Criminal Macabre: Two Red Eyes #1

Dark horse noir at its moodiest — Tim Bradstreet's stark black-and-white cover, punctuated by vivid blood-red spatters, sets an immediately unsettling tone for this 2006 Cal McDonald mystery. A hard-edged man in a suit leans back with a handgun in hand, city skyline looming behind him in silhouette, the bold red title "Two Red Eyes" cutting through the shadows like a warning. Writer Steve Niles and artist Kyle Hotz, with colors by Michelle Madsen, promise the kind of gritty supernatural crime storytelling that makes Criminal Macabre such a compellingly dark corner of the Dark Horse lineup.