Fatale #20

Sean Phillips's cover for Fatale #20 delivers exactly the mood this series does so well — a close-up portrait of a mysterious woman rendered in stark black and white, her cat-eye sunglasses blazing with vivid reflected fire that feels like the only color in her world. That contrast between cool monochrome beauty and the smoldering lenses is quietly unsettling in the best noir tradition. Ed Brubaker and Phillips continue their dark collaboration here in 2014, with "Curse the Demon" promising the kind of supernatural dread that makes this series such a compelling read.