Gideon Falls #8

Andrea Sorrentino and Dave Stewart's cover for issue #8 sets an unsettling, almost hypnotic mood — a lone car sits at the edge of a still waterway beneath a glowing sky as hundreds of birds erupt upward in a dense, churning murmuration. The sheer scale of that swarm against the quiet landscape gives the image a creeping dread that feels perfectly in tune with Jeff Lemire's rural horror series. If "Killer Smile" sounds ominous, this November 2018 installment of Gideon Falls makes clear the series hasn't lost any of its atmospheric nerve.