Point Blank #2

Part two of Ed Brubaker's gritty five-issue WildStorm miniseries arrives with a cover by Simon Bisley that practically leaps off the shelf — a spiky-haired, leather-jacketed figure dives through a back-alley corner, dual pistols blazing with brilliant streaks of flame on both sides, while scattered newspapers and a startled cat scramble out of the way below. It's a kinetic, street-level image that perfectly captures the hard-boiled tension Brubaker brings to this corner of the WildStorm universe in 2002.