No Place #5

No Place #5 from Ignition Press brings Tim Seeley and Stefano Simeone's strange, imaginative series to a fever pitch, with a cover that pulls no punches: a pink-haired young woman stands defiantly at the center, flanked by a humanoid lion and a mechanical, armored figure, while a straw-stuffed scarecrow-like being looms overhead — all of them encircled by writhing, shadowy purple creatures closing in from every direction. It's a vivid, unsettling tableau that evokes classic fantasy archetypes filtered through a genuinely darker, more dangerous lens. At $4.99, this fifth chapter looks like exactly the kind of issue where the tension the series has been building finally has nowhere left to go.