Graveyard Shift #4

The penultimate tension of Jay Faerber and Fran Bueno's vampire noir series is on full display here, as a pale blonde woman in a red dress — blood on her hands and mouth — sits coolly in a chair while a grim-faced man in a dark jacket levels a pistol directly at the viewer. The contrast between her composed, predatory stillness and his coiled urgency gives this cover a charged, noir-thriller energy that's hard to look away from. A strong close to this 2015 Image series from a creative team clearly committed to atmospheric, grounded horror.