Hawaiian Dick: Screaming Black Thunder #5

Two groups of hard-edged men face off on opposite sides of a vivid, swirling pink tree — the tension between them practically radiates off the page, with armed figures visible among the crowd and a cool blue-toned bruiser squaring up against a weathered, scarred opponent on the left. Steven Griffin's cover art gives Hawaiian Dick: Screaming Black Thunder #5 a striking, almost hallucinatory quality that perfectly suits the series' blend of tropical noir and raw confrontation. B. Clay Moore and Scott Chantler's "Screaming Black Thunder" arc wraps up its fifth chapter here, and this 2008 Image release makes clear there's nothing quiet about the way it's heading toward its conclusion.