Hard Looks #3

Andrew Vachss's crime fiction gets a raw, atmospheric comics treatment in this third installment of Dark Horse's Hard Looks, adapting his story "Cripple." James O'Barr's painted cover sets a deeply unsettling noir mood — a gaunt, trench-coated figure looms in a doorway above a bloodied woman lying motionless on the floor, with ominous red writing smeared across the wall behind him. It's a striking piece of cover art that captures exactly the kind of hard-edged, street-level darkness Vachss built his reputation on.