Newburn #10

The cover of this tenth issue says everything about the world Chip Zdarsky and Jacob Phillips have built: a stern, imposing figure looms above two silhouetted men dangling on puppet strings, rendered in a striking two-tone palette of deep red and smoky black. It's a quietly unsettling image that captures the criminal underworld's power dynamics with real elegance. Newburn continues to prove itself one of Image Comics' most atmospheric crime series, and issue #10 looks like a pivotal moment in that web of control.