Human Target #8

Peter Milligan and Cliff Chiang's Vertigo series was earning serious attention in 2004, and this Wizard "Book of the Month" pick shows exactly why. Chiang's cover captures a tense, atmospheric moment: a determined man raises a pistol against a darkened backdrop, his face set in grim resolve while a car's headlights glow ominously behind him, fallen leaves caught in the charged air. "American Terrorists" is the subtitle of this middle chapter of a three-part arc — the kind of morally complex thriller that made Human Target one of Vertigo's most compelling mature-readers titles of its era.