Freshmen #6

The penultimate issue of Freshmen II: Fundamentals of Fear from Top Cow wraps up with a striking Cover B featuring pencils by Eric Basaldua and inks by Rick Basaldua — and it's a genuinely unsettling image: a massive, shadowy skull-faced entity wreathed in flame and dark smoke looms over a smirking, bowler-hatted figure in a suit, the purple and green atmospheric haze giving the whole scene a nightmarish quality. That tagline quote attributed to George Lucas along the bottom adds a wry, self-aware charm that perfectly captures the book's irreverent spirit. If you've been following this sophomore volume's escalating tension in 2007, this closing chapter promises a suitably dramatic send-off.