Final Crisis Aftermath: Escape #5

The penultimate chapter of DC's 2009 Final Crisis Aftermath: Escape miniseries arrives with a quietly unsettling cover by Scott Hampton — a face, tense and wide-eyed, emerging as if tearing through or dissolving into a ragged void of darkness, radiating the kind of psychological dread the series has built toward. With Iván Brandon's story "The Machine" reaching its second-to-last turn, this issue promises the mounting tension of a mind pushed to its limits. Five issues in, this six-part series has been a genuinely compelling dive into disorientation and identity, and the cover alone makes a strong case for seeing it through to the end.