Fatale #16

Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips continue their noir-horror series with this striking sixteenth issue, featuring Sean Phillips's cover — a brooding close-up of a long-haired man's face rendered almost entirely in stark black and white, save for a vivid red lipstick mark pressed onto his cheek. That single slash of crimson against the monochrome portrait says everything about the dangerous allure at the heart of Fatale. A quietly arresting piece of cover art that sets a perfectly unsettling tone for "Chapter Two.