Dial H #15

China Miéville's wildly inventive New 52 series reaches issue #15 with a cover by Brian Bolland that perfectly captures the dial's overwhelming chaos — a distressed man sits hunched over a rotary public telephone while an impossible crowd of bizarre heroes and suited figures swirls around him, including a Saturn-helmeted figure, a masked bat-costumed hero, a donkey-headed character, and stranger things still. Bolland's dense, intricate composition makes the protagonist feel like a small, exhausted center in a storm of identities he can barely contain. At $4.99, this "Crossed Wires" chapter from the creative team of Miéville, Alberto Ponticelli, and Dan Green promises the same gloriously strange superhero storytelling the series has delivered throughout its run.