Crossover #7

A lone figure flees into a blizzard-swept landscape on this quietly unsettling cover, while a telephone pole in the foreground bears a blood-spattered MISSING poster — for none other than series writer Chip Zdarsky himself, listed by his real name Steve Murray. Zdarsky both wrote this issue and drew the cover, lending the whole thing a wonderfully self-aware, meta sense of dread that fits perfectly within Crossover's genre-bending world. Issue #7 from Image's 2021 run is a striking example of the series leaning into its own mythology with wit and a chill in the air.