Red Team #5

Garth Ennis and Craig Cermak's gritty crime series reaches its fifth chapter with a cover by Howard Chaykin that pulls no punches — a tattooed fist clutches a blood-spattered cleaver while two bloodied hands reach upward in desperate surrender, the whole image drenched in visceral tension against a cold grey backdrop. It's the kind of stark, confrontational imagery that makes Red Team's morally complicated world of law enforcement feel genuinely dangerous. If "The Nights of Nights" lives up to this cover's raw intensity, Ennis fans are in for another uncompromising chapter from Dynamite's 2013 crime series.