Maskerade #3

The cover of this Dark Horse series delivers something genuinely unsettling: a cascading chain of massive blue flowers, each with a human skull at its center, with dozens of small grey figures tumbling, clinging, and scattering around them — all set against a stark white background broken only by a bold red circle. It's a surreal, almost hypnotic image that balances beauty and dread in equal measure. Kevin Smith and collaborators Andy McElfresh, John Sprengelmeyer, Giulia Brusco, and Andrew Thomas bring a real visual ambition to this 2022 Dark Horse series that makes issue #3 hard to put down.