Dead Boy Detectives #10

Spinning out of the pages of The Sandman, this Vertigo series delivers a genuinely eerie blend of detective mystery and supernatural strangeness. Issue #10 — the fourth chapter of "Ghost Snow" — presents a cover by Mark Buckingham that drops two young protagonists into a harrowing confrontation: a massive, shaggy beast looms overhead while a ghostly, shrouded figure issues threats about "new blades," with a captive girl pleading to go home and panel vignettes hinting at a missing character and another prisoner looking ready to "die, again." Written by Toby Litt and Buckingham, with inks by Ryan Kelly and colors by Lee Loughridge, this December 2014 issue channels the offbeat charm of its Sandman roots into something that feels both wonderfully strange and urgently suspenseful.