Jacked #2

The second chapter of Vertigo's six-part series finds its everyman protagonist locked in a tense face-off with a snarling black dog, the two faces filling the cover in an uncomfortably close stare-down while green-and-orange capsules scatter across the background — a vivid shorthand for the pharmaceutical edge this series rides. Glenn Fabry's cover work is painterly and visceral, capturing both the man's wary determination and the animal's bared, glistening teeth with equal intensity. With Eric Kripke writing and John Higgins handling art, inks, and colors throughout, Jacked #2 keeps its mature-readers promise right from the cover.