Kill or Be Killed #14

Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, and Elizabeth Breitweiser's gripping crime series reaches its fourteenth issue, and Sean Phillips's cover sets the tension perfectly: a masked figure in a red balaclava crouches amid an explosion of searing yellow and orange light, a city skyline barely visible in the deep red background behind them. The composition pulses with urgency — all heat, shadow, and barely-contained danger. If you've been following this series through 2017, this cover promises the pressure is only building.