Pennyworth #4

The fourth chapter of this seven-issue series arrives with one of the more quietly unsettling covers of 2022 — Jorge Fornés renders a bloodied hand reaching up from snow, a fragment of a Union Jack visible in the corner, suggesting Alfred Pennyworth's British roots are very much in the mix. That stark, minimalist image does a lot of heavy lifting, conveying danger and vulnerability without a single word. With Scott Bryan Wilson writing and Juan Gedeon on interior art, "No Escape in the Cold" promises exactly the kind of grounded, espionage-tinged tension this series has been building toward.