Minor Threats: The Last Devil Left Alive #4

The penultimate chapter of Minor Threats: The Last Devil Left Alive arrives in fine, chaotic form — Scott Hepburn's cover drops us into a wall of fire and billowing black smoke where a diamond-patterned villain tumbles through the inferno above a wild-haired, snarling figure charging forward with blades raised and an expression of pure, unhinged fury. The small portrait inset of a young woman in a cracked helmet anchors the series' grounded perspective against all that gloriously messy mayhem. With Patton Oswalt and Jordan Blum on script and Ian Herring's amber-and-purple fire lighting the whole thing up, "Terminal Issues" looks like exactly the kind of fourth-issue escalation this series has been building toward.