Faithless III #1

Maria Llovet's striking cover sets the tone for this third chapter of Brian Azzarello and Llovet's dark, sensual series from BOOM! Studios — a pale young woman with blood-red tears streaming down her face holds a finger to her lips in a hushing gesture, while crimson hands reach in from either side, framing her in an atmosphere of dangerous secrets. Pink threads tangled with barbed wire and a cross pendant add layers of tension to an image that feels at once reverent and transgressive. If the Dante epigraph — "The path to paradise begins in hell" — is any indication, Faithless III promises to keep diving into beautifully unsettling territory.