Outlaw Nation #10

Glenn Fabry's cover for this August 2001 Vertigo entry is viscerally arresting — a battered face, eyes swollen and bleeding, cradled in rough hands, with the words "WHAT I DO" scratched raw across the forehead. It's the kind of image that stops you cold, perfectly suited to Jamie Delano's darkly literary sensibility on this mature-readers series. With interior art by Goran Parlov and Goran Sudžuka, Outlaw Nation #10, "Strange Fruit," promises the gritty, unflinching storytelling the series built its reputation on.