Deadly Class #25

A red-haired young woman stands bound at the center of this chilling cover, a cord running up to the grinning figure looming above her — a long-haired man whose calm smile makes him all the more unsettling, flanked on either side by four figures whose eyes are blacked out like redacted files. Wes Craig's stark linework and Jordan Boyd's moody purple-and-crimson palette give the image a suffocating tension that's pure Deadly Class atmosphere. Issue #25 finds Rick Remender's series deep in its 1988 setting and showing no signs of letting its characters — or its readers — breathe easy.