Green Wake #5

Riley Rossmo's cover for this fifth issue of Image's unsettling 2011 series is genuinely arresting: a pale woman in a blood-spattered white dress stands over a crimson pool, clutching what appears to be a dripping red cord, while a distorted, anguished face stares upward from beneath the surface below her feet. Kurtis Wiebe and Rossmo's atmospheric horror series reaches its penultimate chapter here, and the cover's rain-streaked, watercolor-like textures give the whole image a nightmarish, dreamlike weight that feels entirely earned.