Hellboy: Weird Tales #5

The painterly cover by J. H. Williams III sets a hauntingly romantic mood, arranging three intimate panels — a brooding red-skinned Hellboy, a glamorous blonde woman in a red dress, and a gleaming vintage pink Cadillac — against a twilit winter landscape with bare branches and a crescent moon. Tucked into the corner, a small heart-shaped image with bared teeth adds just the right note of menace to the dreamy, noir atmosphere. With a story titled "Love Is Scarier Than Death" and contributors including Jim Starlin, Ron Marz, Cameron Stewart, and John Cassaday alongside Williams, this fifth installment of Hellboy: Weird Tales promises the kind of strange, pulpy romance that makes the anthology series so distinctive.