Crownsville #5

The penultimate issue of Rodney Barnes and Elia Bonetti's five-part series arrives with a haunting cover by Jason Shawn Alexander — a crowd of ghostly, blood-washed figures surges forward beneath a "Now Leaving Annapolis" road sign, the tagline "The past is a ghost that will devour you whole" looming above them like a quiet threat. The painterly red-and-blue palette gives the mass of spectral forms an almost overwhelming weight, with one screaming figure and a central soul who seems to carry the burden of all those behind him. Crownsville #5 promises a reckoning both personal and communal, and Alexander's cover makes clear that whatever waits inside, it will not be gentle.