Fell #5

Ben Templesmith's cover for Fell #5 sets an unsettling tone immediately — a lone figure in a suit stands half-shrouded in shadow against a worn wall, while a crude red symbol looms large to his left, dripping like a wound. Above, a washed-out image of a dilapidated building reinforces the series' atmosphere of urban decay and quiet dread. Warren Ellis and Templesmith's Eisner-nominated collaboration (five nominations in 2006) continues to deliver crime fiction with a genuinely distinctive visual sensibility.