Drifter #4

Nic Klein's cover for Drifter #4 sets an unsettling, atmospheric tone — a wrecked vehicle sits at the center of a blazing, sun-drenched wasteland while a dark, smoke-like skull billows upward from the wreckage, black liquid dripping from its form against a fiery amber sky. The radar-grid overlay and dot-matrix title treatment give the whole image a tense, almost militaristic feel that suits Iván Brandon's sci-fi noir perfectly. With "An Understanding" as the story title, this fourth chapter promises that the tension building across the series is about to reach something raw and consequential.