Crowded #2

The cover of this Image series captures the premise with playful menace: a smirking, purple-haired figure looms large in the background while a group of armed pursuers — rendered as flat, paper-doll cutouts — close in on a central woman wielding two weapons in a defiant stance. Ro Stein's design choice to contrast the massive, grinning threat above with the scrappy chaos below gives the whole image a darkly comic energy that perfectly suits a 2018 series built around crowdsourced danger. At $3.99, Crowded #2 looks like the kind of book that earns its premise on the cover alone.