Phantom Road #9

That single lit window glowing an eerie yellow-green against the dark of a deserted motel courtyard says everything about the mood Jeff Lemire and Gabriel H. Walta have built in Phantom Road. Walta's cover — rendered in deep, oppressive blues with power lines cutting across a bruised night sky — makes the mundane feel genuinely unsettling, and Jordie Bellaire's color work makes that one illuminated doorway impossible to look away from. With a story titled "I See You," issue #9 promises the kind of slow-burn dread this series does so well.