Damned #4

The unsettling cover of Damned #4 — penciled and inked by Mike Zeck — presents a stack of crime-scene Polaroids, the top one revealing chalk outlines of two bodies on rain-slicked pavement, a dark bloodstain spreading between them, with the caption reading "The only line no one crosses." It's a quietly chilling composition that captures the noir atmosphere Steven Grant brings to this series perfectly. If you've been following this 1997 Homage Comics title, this fourth issue promises to keep the tension exactly where it belongs.