Gideon Falls #7

Andrea Sorrentino's cover for issue #7 of Jeff Lemire's unsettling rural horror series is a study in quiet dread — a solitary, gnarled tree silhouetted against Dave Stewart's amber sky, a child's swing hanging motionless from one branch and an overturned farm tractor half-buried at its roots, with a single bird drifting in the distance. The image says everything without saying a word: something has gone wrong in this place, and whatever it was, it happened a while ago. Gideon Falls continues to be one of 2018's most atmospheric comics, and this cover is a perfect, haunting distillation of the series' mood.