Pine and Merrimac #5

The penultimate chapter of Kyle Starks and Fran Galán's Pine & Merrimac arrives at BOOM! Studios with a cover that means business — a young, sharp-eyed figure stares out with fierce intensity, a still-smoking gun raised in hand against a fiery, chaos-tinged background etched with occult symbols. Galán's warm amber and orange palette gives the whole image a slow-burning urgency that matches the tension written across the character's face. If this series has been building toward something, issue five makes clear the fuse is just about spent.