Danger Street #11

Jorge Fornés's cover for Danger Street #11 is a masterclass in dread — a lone figure stands at the bottom of a staircase, looking up toward an open door from which a brutal slash of red spills downward like a wound cutting through the darkness. The stark black-and-grey palette against that single devastating stroke of crimson does more storytelling than words ever could, perfectly setting the tone for "Codename: Assassin." Tom King and Fornés continue their DC Black Label series with this penultimate chapter, and if the cover is any indication, the tension has nowhere to go but up.