Hawaiian Dick: Screaming Black Thunder #2

The "tropical noir" promise on the masthead gets a vivid workout on Steven Griffin's cover for this second chapter of "Screaming Black Thunder" — a goggled pilot peers tensely from his cockpit while military aircraft streak overhead, a flower-adorned woman recoils dramatically in a lush Hawaiian setting, and a crowd of weathered faces looms at the bottom, hinting at trouble brewing on multiple fronts. B. Clay Moore and Scott Chantler's sun-soaked noir series continues to blend mid-century Pacific atmosphere with genuine menace, and this 2008 Image issue captures that tension in every panel of the cover composition. If you like your pulp with palm trees and a side of danger, Hawaiian Dick delivers.