Last Train to Deadsville: A Cal McDonald Mystery #3

Two hard-edged figures — a grim, cigarette-smoking man and a hulking, green-tinged monster in a suit — loom over a flaming demonic skull on a candlestick, a darkened Victorian house looming ominously behind them under a bat-filled sky. Kelley Jones brings his distinctively moody linework to this cover, and the whole image crackles with pulpy supernatural menace perfectly suited to Steve Niles's Cal McDonald world. Issue three of this Dark Horse horror-mystery series keeps the atmosphere thick and the company decidedly dangerous.