Ex-Con #2

The cover of this second issue from Dynamite's 2014 crime series speaks volumes without saying a word — a close-up of a wide, unsettling eye peers through vertical bars, with a glittering cityscape reflected in the iris and a burst of harsh light cutting across the image like a searchlight. It's a striking, atmospheric design by cover artist Tim Bradstreet that perfectly captures the tension between confinement and the world waiting just outside. Writer Duane Swierczynski and artist Keith Burns continue their gritty collaboration here, and the title "I'm Waiting for the Man" only deepens the sense that something dangerous is building just beneath the surface.