Gideon Falls #24

Andrea Sorrentino's cover for this 2020 Image issue is a quietly haunting piece of surrealist portraiture — a profile view of a figure wearing a GFPD badge, whose mind literally contains a vast desert landscape complete with red rock formations, a bare winter tree, a pale moon, and a lonely windmill beside a distant structure. The visual metaphor is striking without being overwrought, suggesting a character whose inner world is as desolate and strange as any frontier. With Jeff Lemire writing and Dave Stewart's warm, dusty palette grounding the whole image, Gideon Falls #24 — "All the Best Cowgirls Have Daddy Issues," part three of the "Wicked Worlds" arc — promises the series' signature blend of psychological unease and myth-soaked atmosphere.