Human Target #3

The penultimate chapter of Peter Milligan and Edvin Biuković's four-issue Vertigo miniseries arrives with a cover by Tim Bradstreet that is immediately arresting: two nearly identical armed men stand back-to-back against a bold checkerboard and target-crosshair backdrop, their mirrored poses raising the unsettling question of which one is the real Human Target. Floating portraits of additional figures loom above them in the composition, adding a sense of surveillance and conspiracy to the tense standoff geometry. If you've been following this stylish, mature-readers thriller, issue #3 is exactly the kind of cover that reminds you why you picked up issue #1.