Human Target #4

The finale of Vertigo's 1999 Human Target miniseries arrives with a Tim Bradstreet cover that bristles with cool tension: a pale, blank-faced man in a suit levels a pistol against a stark checkerboard backdrop, while a woman's portrait floats to one side and a dreadlocked figure spreads his arms in the foreground, surrounded by cryptic circular symbols. It's a composition that captures the series' themes of identity and danger with quiet, unsettling precision. Peter Milligan's writing paired with Edvin Biuković's interior art makes this fourth issue a satisfying conclusion to one of Vertigo's more intriguing thriller experiments of the era.