Golden Rage #5

This fifth chapter of Image's Golden Rage arrives with a cover by Lauren Knight that pulls no punches: an older woman in a yellow hood fills the frame, her round glasses catching the light and a cigarette clenched between her teeth, while an ethereal, luminous figure rises in smoke behind her — an image that feels equal parts defiant and elegiac, perfectly suited to a story chapter titled "Funeral." Chrissy Williams and Lauren Knight have built something genuinely distinctive here, and Sofie Dodgson's warm, smoldering color palette gives the whole scene a charged, bittersweet atmosphere. If you've been following this 2022 series about older women refusing to be written off, this issue's cover promises the emotional stakes are only rising.