Human Target #2

Peter Milligan and Javier Pulido's Human Target wastes no time establishing the series' unsettling mood — this second issue kicks off "The Unshredded Man," a two-part story that sounds as ominous as it looks. The cover, also by Pulido, presents a lone suited figure rendered in shadowy silhouette, surrounded by swirling fragments of shredded paper against a muted, near-monochrome background — an image that quietly radiates dread and questions of identity. Vertigo's mature-readers imprint is the right home for this kind of cool, understated tension.