Midnight Nation #12

The concluding chapter of J. Michael Straczynski's celebrated series arrives with a cover by Gary Frank and Jonathan Sibal that says everything without saying a word — a lone figure in a long coat walks an empty city street toward a luminous, larger-than-life female face that fills the horizon like a vision or a memory. It's a quietly haunting image, melancholy and hopeful at once, perfectly suited to a story called "Beyond the Road." Twelve issues in, Midnight Nation closes on a note that feels both inevitable and earned, and this 2002 Top Cow/Image release is a fitting final chapter to one of the more thoughtful series of its era.