Monkey Meat #5

Juni Ba's surreal anthology series reaches its fifth issue with a cover as wonderfully strange as the series itself — a battered figure with an exposed brain being stabbed by a fork while a massive, blood-splattered robotic fist looms in from the right, all rendered in Ba's striking yellow-and-black palette. The imagery perfectly captures the darkly absurdist flavor that has made Monkey Meat one of 2022's most distinctive voices at Image Comics. If you've been following this wild ride, issue five promises more of the inventive weirdness that defines the series.