In Bloom #5

The penultimate issue of BOOM! Studios' In Bloom closes in with something deeply unsettling — a pair of gloved hands pulling apart what appears to be a grotesquely organic, fungal mass of flesh and tissue, rendered in John J. Pearson's visceral, painterly style. That cracked, fractured background and the delicate botanical silhouettes framing the title above create a striking tension between beauty and horror. If this cover is any indication, the series has been building toward something genuinely disturbing — and issue five looks like the moment things unravel.