Jacked #4

The tagline says it all — "Get Strong. Get Hooked. Get…" — and Glenn Fabry's cover for this fourth chapter of Eric Kripke's six-issue Vertigo series delivers a visceral image to match: a desperate, wide-eyed man is trapped inside a giant prescription pill bottle, clutching his face in distress while dozens of orange medication bottles scatter around him. It's a striking visual metaphor for a story subtitled "Rock Bottom," rendered with Fabry's characteristically intense realism and colored vividly by SotoColor. With John Higgins on art duties inside, Jacked #4 looks to push its protagonist deeper into the grip of whatever those little pills have wrought.