Jennifer Blood #5

Garth Ennis's gritty vigilante series hits its fifth issue with a cover that makes an immediate, visceral impression — Jennifer Blood rendered as a stark silhouette against a deep crimson field, armed and masked, her red-lensed eyes cutting through the darkness with quiet menace. Johnny Desjardins's cover work strips the character down to pure threat, all inkwash atmosphere and implied violence. With Kewber Baal handling interior art and the story titled "Dogfight," this 2011 Dynamite issue promises the kind of mature, no-nonsense action storytelling that defines the series.