Human Target #21

Peter Milligan and Cliff Chiang's Vertigo series comes to a close with this final issue, and John Watkiss's cover sets a fittingly tense tone: a figure in a long coat crouches on a staircase with a gun raised, while a silhouetted man in a doorway levels his own weapon back — two armed figures caught in a shadowy, high-stakes standoff. It's a moody, atmospheric send-off for one of Vertigo's most intriguing crime titles of 2005, concluding the three-part "The Stealer" arc with palpable urgency.