Postal #18

Top Cow's acclaimed crime-noir series reaches its eighteenth issue with a cover that reimagines the Garden of Eden — a man in a postal worker's shirt and a woman in dark clothing face each other among ancient, gnarled trees laden with fruit, a green serpent coiling between their joined hands while a deer and a cat rest at their feet. The lush, painterly imagery from Matt Hawkins, Bryan Hill, Isaac Goodhart, and K. Michael Russell carries a quiet sense of temptation and moral tension that has defined this series. At $3.99, it's a compelling chapter in one of Image/Top Cow's most grounded and atmospheric ongoing titles of 2017.