Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency #3

Douglas Adams' beloved holistic detective gets the pulp-thriller treatment in this third issue from IDW, with a cover by Tony Akins that leans into deliciously sinister retro-romance: a grinning, square-jawed man and a cool-eyed blonde together hold a very bloody knife, their cheek-to-cheek pose somewhere between date night and crime scene. The warm halftone yellows and reds only sweeten the contrast between that cheerful couple and the deeply unsettling blade between them. With Ryall, Kyriazis, Livesay, and O'Grady carrying the story forward under the title "Life Is Wasted on the Living!", this is one of those covers that makes you genuinely curious — and a little nervous — about what's happening inside.