Empty Zone #6

Jason Shawn Alexander's painted cover for this 2016 Image series delivers an unsettling close-up of a pale, fragmented face — dark, hollow eyes and deep crimson lips emerging from a wash of white — that feels both intimate and deeply wrong. The fractured, tiled composition adds a disorienting quality that suits Empty Zone's blend of sci-fi unease and gothic atmosphere perfectly. If you've been following this series, issue #6 looks like exactly the kind of quietly haunting chapter you've been waiting for.