Criminal the Last of the Innocent #4

The concluding chapter of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips's noir arc arrives with a cover that channels the smoky danger of vintage pulp paperbacks — a man in profile gripping a pistol while a bare-backed woman glances back over her shoulder, the whole scene bathed in deep reds and shadow. It's a quietly menacing image that captures everything Criminal does so well: desire, tension, and the creeping sense that no one gets out clean. Sean Phillips's cover work here is thoroughly assured, and if this arc has been on your pull list, issue four is the one you don't set down until you're finished.