Dept. H #10

A quiet, windswept moment anchors this issue of Matt Kindt and Sharlene Kindt's underwater murder mystery: a dark-haired woman in a flowing green dress stands barefoot on a rocky outcrop, her hair and fabric caught mid-gust against a pale, open sky and calm blue water beyond. The watercolor-style cover art — rendered by Matt Kindt — carries a delicate, melancholy beauty that feels almost deceptively serene for a series subtitled "murder six miles deep." It's a striking contrast between surface stillness and the depths that Dept. H continually plumbs.