Kill or Be Killed #13

Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, and Elizabeth Breitweiser's gritty crime series reaches its thirteenth chapter with a cover that crackles with urgent energy — a red-masked figure in a hoodie advances with a sawed-off shotgun leveled outward, a burning city skyline silhouetted behind them in fiery oranges and golds. Sean Phillips's painted cover work gives the whole image a raw, combustible intensity that's hard to look away from. If you've been following this series through 2017, issue #13 makes a vivid case that the pressure is only building.