Lazarus #7

The rain-soaked cover of this 2014 Image series entry tells a quietly devastating story on its own: four silhouetted figures stand in a barren, storm-lashed landscape looking down at a fifth person collapsed on the ground, blood pooling beneath them. Michael Lark's cover art uses stark contrasts and muted color — the single streak of red against grey pavement hits hard — to capture the bleak human stakes at the heart of Greg Rucka's dystopian world. "Lift - Part Three" promises the kind of grounded, emotionally charged storytelling that has made Lazarus one of Image's most compelling ongoing series.