Fatale #22

Sean Phillips's cover for Fatale #22 is genuinely unsettling in the best way — a suited, tentacled creature with burning yellow eyes strikes a match against a pitch-black void, the small flicker of flame making the surrounding darkness feel all the more vast and threatening. Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips have spent this series blending noir with Lovecraftian dread, and this 2014 image distills that atmosphere into a single, perfectly composed image. If you've been following Fatale, this cover alone confirms the series hasn't lost an ounce of its sinister edge.