Drawing Blood #4

Drawing Blood #4 brings another visually dense installment of this meta comics series from Image, with a cover credited to Eastman, Avallone, Bishop, Little, Varga, and Esposito that packs in a remarkable amount of storytelling energy. The cover presents a central figure in a purple jacket looking back over his shoulder, framed by layered panels — a cosmic sci-fi scene with an astronaut and monstrous creatures, a quiet sketch of a young artist at work, and a bustling convention crowd — all suggesting a world where imagination and reality blur together. Foregrounded is a determined-looking figure in a "Pompeii Pictures" cap, with a film crew visible behind them, reinforcing the series' subtitle, The Story Behind the Stories, and its fascinating peek inside the creative life.