Lazarus #15

Greg Rucka, Michael Lark, and Santi Arcas's dystopian series reaches a tense milestone with "Conclave Part Five," the fifth chapter of what has proven to be a gripping story arc. Owen Freeman's cover says everything without saying a word: a blood-spattered champagne flute dominates the foreground while a bloodied figure crouches against the wall behind it, and a gloved hand reaches ominously from above — elegance and violence colliding in one unsettling image. If this is the kind of sophisticated, high-stakes storytelling Lazarus has been delivering in 2015, issue #15 is not one to pass up.