Loveless #5

Vertigo's Loveless brings Brian Azzarello's gritty post-Civil War western to a head with issue #5, wrapping up "A Kin of Homecoming." Marcelo Frusin's cover pulls you right into the tension — two hat-wearing gunfighters level their pistols directly at the viewer, surrounded by a collage of sepia-toned portraits depicting soldiers, a woman with a rifle, and other hard-edged frontier figures who clearly have a stake in whatever's unfolding. It's a visually arresting arrangement that captures the series' atmosphere of simmering grudges and dangerous alliances perfectly.