Deadman #5

The fifth chapter of this 2002 DC miniseries subtitled "The Murderous Kind" brings a wonderfully unsettling cover by Mike Mignola: Deadman's pale, red-costumed figure hangs inverted in a darkened bay window, his ghostly face eerily lit against the gloom of an old stone building. That stark contrast of crimson and shadow is pure atmosphere, perfectly suited to a character who haunts the space between the living and the dead. With interior work by the acclaimed team of Steve Vance and José Luis García-López, this issue — "Death and the Maiden" — promises the same brooding tension that Mignola's cover so effectively conjures.