Outsiders #48

The "Checkout" arc rolls on in Outsiders #48, and the cover by Matthew Clark and Art Thibert puts two heroes in immediate, desperate peril — a young woman with curly hair clutching a costumed teammate as green energy blasts erupt around them and an armored, crab-like mechanical threat looms overhead. Looming ghostly in the background is a figure rendered entirely in cascading binary code, while a screaming grey-skinned face haunts the upper corner, giving the whole image a sense of threats pressing in from every direction. With Judd Winick, Greg Rucka, Ron Randall, and Matthew Clark all on board, this 2007 chapter of "Checkout" promises exactly the kind of layered, high-stakes tension the cover so vividly telegraphs.