Hit-Girl #5

The penultimate issue of Mark Millar's Hit-Girl series delivers a cover that says everything you need to know about this book's cheerful brutality — a gleeful, masked Hit-Girl perched atop a battered, blood-spattered thug, axe in hand and a delighted grin on her face, with bodies strewn across the ground around them. John Romita Jr.'s pencils, inked by Tom Palmer, capture that unsettling contrast between childlike joy and mayhem with real energy and precision. If you've been following this 2013 Icon series, issue five looks like a fittingly wild ride to the finish.