Dante's Inferno #1

WildStorm's Dante's Inferno #1 opens the comics adaptation of EA's then-upcoming video game with a striking cover by Diego Latorre: a battle-worn crusader figure, draped in a red cross tabard and crowned with a dark helmet, gazes upward from a swirling haze of shadow and flame, projecting grim, purposeful resolve. Writer Christos Gage and the multitalented Latorre — handling art, inks, and colors throughout — bring a painterly, atmospheric intensity to this mature-readers series that feels right at home in 2010's darker end of superhero publishing. If you're drawn to medieval myth steeped in hellish dread, this first issue sets a mood that's hard to shake.