Final Crisis Aftermath: Run! #4

Four issues into this six-part Final Crisis Aftermath series, Matthew Sturges and Freddie Williams II deliver a cover by Kako that crackles with menace — a goggle-wearing figure lunges toward the viewer with grasping hands while a red-costumed, white-cross-bearing figure looms imposingly behind against a grey cityscape. The pairing of that desperate, street-level scrambler with the eerily blank-faced figure in red makes for a genuinely unsettling dynamic, fitting a series whose chapter titles aren't shy about their intentions. If you've been following this post-Final Crisis sprint through DC's underworld, issue #4 keeps the tension wound tight.