Human Target #16

Vertigo's Human Target reaches its "Second Coming" conclusion with this tense January 2005 installment from writer Peter Milligan. John Watkiss's cover artwork is quietly gripping — a suited figure holds a grenade aloft while a gun is pressed toward him, all framed against a glowing full moon and a crowd of robed figures gathered around a cross below. It's the kind of image that captures the series' signature blend of danger and moral ambiguity in a single, sharply composed moment.