Gideon Falls #5

Andrea Sorrentino's cover for issue #5 is a quietly unsettling piece of visual ingenuity — a human face composed entirely of an aerial patchwork of fields and roads, one eye replaced by a pale, glowing orb, rendered in Dave Stewart's cool blue-black palette against a stark void. The figure's collar and what appears to be a name tag ground the uncanny image just enough in the mundane to make it all the more disquieting. Jeff Lemire's rural horror series was already drawing attention by mid-2018, and a cover this imaginative makes clear why.