Criminal the Last of the Innocent #1

Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips bring their sharp noir sensibility to this opening chapter of The Last of the Innocent, published under Marvel's Icon imprint in 2011. Sean Phillips's moody cover sets the tone perfectly — a glamorous woman in a red dress commands the foreground beneath cool blue shadows, while a brooding man in a suit watches from the background amid a crowd of cocktail-party figures. It's the kind of image that promises smoky rooms, complicated people, and the creeping sense that nobody here is quite as clean as they'd like to believe.