Hard Time #10

Hard Time #10 brings Steve Gerber and Brian Hurtt's gritty DC Focus series to an intriguing crossroads with "Sucker's Game." Hurtt's cover sets a striking mood: a young male figure lies prone in the foreground, while a framed image — almost like a photograph or vision — shows a red-haired woman in provocative attire posed against rich crimson curtains, the whole scene crisscrossed by the shadow of prison bars. It's a quietly unsettling composition that captures the series' blend of confinement, temptation, and psychological tension perfectly.