Final Crisis Aftermath: Escape #6

The six-issue Final Crisis Aftermath: Escape miniseries wraps up with a cover by Scott Hampton that delivers one of 2009's more unsettling images of apparent leisure: a blond man in a Hawaiian shirt and sunglasses reclines in a lawn chair under a striped beach umbrella while a server offers him a cocktail — all perched atop a mound riddled with skulls and skeletal remains. That darkly ironic juxtaposition of paradise and decay sets a fitting tone for a finale subtitled "The Long Way Home," with Iván Brandon, Cliff Richards, and Prentis Rollins bringing the story to its conclusion.