Crosswind #4

Gail Simone and Cat Staggs's Crosswind continues with issue #4, subtitled "First There Is a Mountain," and the cover by Staggs sets a tone of dangerous intimacy right away. A dark-haired figure grabs a man's face and pulls him into a forceful kiss — his wide, uncertain eye and the glint of handcuffs dangling from a wrist suggesting this encounter is anything but voluntary. It's a quietly unsettling image that captures exactly the kind of morally complicated storytelling this series delivers.