Paper Girls #27

Paper Girls #27 brings Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang's time-bending series to its penultimate chapter with a cover that radiates quiet unease. Chiang renders a young woman in a red jacket filling the left foreground, her expression guarded and contemplative, while behind her a vintage car sits in the driveway of a modest suburban house bathed in a striking amber palette — the kind of ordinary American scene that feels anything but safe in this series. Matt Wilson and Dee Cunniffe's warm golden tones give the whole image a tense, late-afternoon stillness that perfectly captures the mood of a story always asking what home really means.