Preacher #51

Glenn Fabry's cover for Preacher #51 (July 1999) says everything with quiet, unsettling elegance — a steel semi-automatic pistol rests beside a wilting red rose, its petals bruised and its stem trailing dried tendrils across a pale surface. The pairing of beauty and lethal hardware feels entirely at home in Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's Vertigo series, and the story title — "Freedom's Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose" — promises the kind of hard-edged, emotionally resonant storytelling this creative team does so well.