Deathbed #5

Vertigo's Deathbed keeps pushing its pulpy, anything-goes energy into issue #5, and Riley Rossmo's cover makes a striking case for why this series demands attention. Against a vast alien moon rising over golden desert dunes, a white-haired, masked figure in black and yellow drives a sword into a snarling, bloodied beast-creature mid-lunge — the clash rendered in Rossmo's kinetic, rough-edged style with Ivan Plascencia's vivid color work giving the whole scene a fever-dream glow. Joshua Williamson's wild adventure yarn is clearly not slowing down, and this cover promises the kind of gloriously unhinged confrontation that makes mature-readers Vertigo comics so hard to put down.