Elephantmen #36

Rain-soaked and brooding, Moritat's cover for Elephantmen #36 places a massive, trench-coated Elephantman figure front and center, his hulking hybrid form turned away from the viewer as city skyscrapers loom through the downpour behind him — the tagline "The bodies of the dead were starting to pile up" setting a grim noir tone. This is Part One of the four-part "Killing Season" arc, written by Richard Starkings with interior art by Axel Medellin, and the cover's atmosphere promises something dark and deliberate unfolding across a rain-drenched urban landscape. At 35 pages of comics for $3.99, it's a meaty installment in Image's mature-readers series that wears its hardboiled influences right on its sleeve.