Paper Girls #7

Two small figures stand alone in a vast, rain-swept parking lot, facing the looming facade of what looks like an abandoned mall as lightning splits the purple sky above — it's a cover that makes the world feel enormous and quietly threatening. Cliff Chiang's linework, washed in Matt Wilson and Dee Cunniffe's moody violet palette, turns a piece of mundane American suburban landscape into something genuinely unsettling. With a story titled "The Present Is Not a Gift," this 2016 Image series continues to deliver that rare blend of eerie atmosphere and grounded wonder.