Dark Blood #2

The cover of Dark Blood #2 sets a quietly charged, dual-world tone — a Black man and a woman share an intimate moment in front of a modest home, while looming above them, rendered in haunting green, is a helmeted, goggled soldier gripping a rifle amid the wreckage of a wartime landscape. Valentine De Landro's composition draws a striking visual contrast between the domestic warmth of civilian life and the shadow of combat that refuses to stay in the past. This six-issue BOOM! Studios series from 2021 already feels like compelling, character-driven storytelling with real emotional stakes.