Paper Girls #26

The penultimate issue of Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang's beloved series sets a tense, Halloween-charged mood: a young woman clutches a knife in the foreground, her expression wary and determined, while behind her looms a suburban house lit by jack-o'-lanterns and decorated with silhouettes of cats and bats in its glowing windows. Chiang's two-tone pink-and-blue palette gives the whole scene a dreamy, slightly eerie glow that perfectly captures the series' blend of suburban nostalgia and genuine danger. With the finale just one issue away, this 2019 cover promises that Paper Girls is heading somewhere memorable.