Nathaniel Dusk II #4

The four-part "Apple Peddlers Die at Noon" arc reaches its conclusion here, with Gene Colan's cover delivering a raw, visceral close-up of Nathaniel Dusk — gun in hand, bullets suspended mid-air around him — rendered in moody, expressionistic strokes that feel more like film noir cinema than a typical 1986 comics cover. Don McGregor and Colan together bring a gritty, literary sensibility to DC's hard-boiled private investigator, and this final chapter promises the tension has nowhere left to go but to a breaking point. If you've followed Dusk through this second mini-series, this is the payoff you've been waiting for.