Kick-Ass #17

Steve Niles and Marcelo Frusin's run on this Image series delivers a cover that pulls no punches: the green-and-gold-suited Kick-Ass stands over two bloodied, fallen figures in a darkened space, pistol in hand, the aftermath of violence rendered in stark, unsparing detail by Frusin. It's a striking image — quiet and brutal at once — that captures exactly the kind of morally weighted street-level action this series trades in. Issue #17 makes clear that 2019's Kick-Ass continues to earn its title the hard way.