Jinx #3

Brian Michael Bendis brings his signature crime noir sensibility to Jinx #3 with a cover that stops you cold — two faces rendered in stark purple and burnt orange tones loom against a dark urban backdrop, their expressions tense and unreadable, while vivid red blood splatter punctuates the title lettering above. The dueling color treatments give the pair a hardboiled, almost cinematic quality that fits the gritty street-crime world Bendis built entirely on his own as writer, artist, and inker. "Stoplights" promises the kind of moody, slow-burn tension that made this 1997 Image series a compelling showcase for one creator's singular vision.