Redneck #16

Redneck #16 delivers one of the most unsettling cover images in Donny Cates' gritty vampire series: a bruised, hard-eyed man staring straight at you from a Texas Penitentiary mugshot board, stamped with the date 08 2018. Lisandro Estherren's linework and Dee Cunniffe's muted, sepia-toned palette give the image a rawness that feels less like comics and more like evidence. If you've been following this Skybound series, this cover alone signals that things have gone somewhere very dark indeed.