Postal #15

Image Comics' gripping crime series reaches its fifteenth issue with a cover that makes an immediate impression — a blonde woman named Maggie stands tall in a diner uniform, rifle in hand, while a young postal worker crouches beside her gripping a handgun, both posed in a doorway as warm sunset light spills through the glass behind them. The pairing of a waitress and a mail carrier armed and ready speaks volumes about the dangerous, off-kilter world this series inhabits. Linda Sejic's painted cover work gives the scene a quietly tense beauty that pulls you right in.