Red Herring #5

This fifth issue of WildStorm's Red Herring series lands with a wonderfully absurdist image: a red-haired man in a suit holds up a bizarre "thirty-three dollar bill" bearing an alien skull portrait, while in the background a woman gleefully tosses cash in front of an open vault. Philip Bond's cover art perfectly captures the series' off-kilter sensibility — equal parts conspiracy thriller and deadpan comedy. With writer David Tischman steering the story and a pull quote promising something "unquantifiable, rampant, wild, and just a little bit insane," issue #5 makes a compelling case that this 2010 series is doing something genuinely different with the spy-adjacent genre.