Monkey Meat: The Summer Batch #3

Monkey Meat Island welcomes all — business, leisure, or on the run from the authorities — and this third issue of Juni Ba's delightfully strange anthology leans into that pitch with gleeful absurdity. The cover depicts a suited figure cheerfully striding through what appears to be an airport departure area, luggage in hand, while an ominous armed shadow looms behind them and a small but telling bloodstain dots the floor below. With two stories per issue plus games promised right on the cover, this "Summer Batch" installment makes a genuinely compelling case that Image's most pleasantly unsettling anthology is hitting its stride.