Dead Inside #[nn]

A steely detective — badge clipped to her belt, pistol at the ready — stands at the center of Dave Johnson's coolly stylized cover, a prison cell grid looming behind her with a tangled red figure trapped within it. The muted greens and grays of Johnson's palette give the whole image a queasy, institutional dread that perfectly matches the title: Dead Inside. Written by John Arcudi with art and colors by Toni Fejzula and André May, this 2017 Dark Horse series drops readers into the grim world of prison homicide investigation, and the praise from Brian Wood printed across the top — "lurid and unsettling" — feels entirely earned just from the cover alone.