Outlaw Nation #19

Outlaw Nation #19 brings Vertigo's gritty crime series to its penultimate chapter with the tagline "The Final Blaze of Glory" — and Glenn Fabry's painted cover earns every word of it. A mosaic of hard-edged faces crowds the image: a determined woman in military fatigues gripping a large pistol dominates the upper half, while a lean, cigarette-smoking man rides below her in what looks like a vehicle cab, surrounded by a haunting gallery of scarred elders, frightened children, and desperate onlookers. Writer Jamie Delano, artist Goran Parlov, and inker Goran Sudžuka round out this mature-readers Vertigo package — the kind of ensemble cover that promises nothing less than reckoning.