Red Team, Double Tap, Center Mass #9

Garth Ennis and Craig Cermak bring their gritty police thriller to a penultimate chapter with this arresting cover — a framed group portrait of four faces, spattered with blood and buried under a cascade of spent brass shell casings. The image is a quietly devastating visual statement about consequence and survival, rendered in Cermak's sketchy, raw style with just enough color to make the crimson and gold pop against the stark black-and-white portrait. Fans of Ennis's hard-edged crime storytelling will find this issue's cover alone sets a fittingly tense tone for what promises to be a brutal endgame.