Jacked #5

The penultimate chapter of Vertigo's six-part series lands with a cover by Glenn Fabry that's equal parts absurd and oddly poignant — a middle-aged man in a red-and-green superhero costume stands defiantly atop a pile of what appear to be chicken nuggets, while a giant, looming face watches from behind a torn paper backdrop. It's a quietly surreal image that perfectly captures the series' promise of everyday life colliding with chemically enhanced ambition. With Eric Kripke writing and John Higgins and Marc Olivent on interior art, Jacked #5 keeps the momentum building as this mature-readers saga heads toward its finale.