Outlaw Nation #2

From Vertigo's mature-readers imprint comes the second issue of Jamie Delano and Goran Sudžuka's gritty series, with a cover by Glenn Fabry that sets a quietly unsettling tone: a disheveled man wades through shallow water, clutching something in one hand while glancing back with a wary, haunted expression, fireworks bursting brilliantly over a resort-lit skyline behind him. The contrast between that festive celebration and the lone figure's obvious distress gives the image a real edge — celebration and desperation sharing the same frame. "Does God Look Down?" promises the kind of morally charged storytelling that made Vertigo an exciting address for crime and noir in 2000.