Masterpiece #5

A woman's face stares out from the center of a shooting-range target on Alex Maleev's striking cover for this fifth issue, her features rendered in deep crimson and slashed through with graphic black marks that give the image an unsettling, fragmented intensity. From the creative team behind Scarlet, Brian Michael Bendis and Maleev bring that same noir sensibility to this Dark Horse series, with coloring by Ian Herring and lettering by Joshua Reed rounding out the package. If you've been following this tale of "the new criminal," issue five promises the kind of tightly wound, visually arresting storytelling this team does so well.