Ringside #5

Joe Keatinge and Nick Barber's pro-wrestling noir from Image reaches its fifth chapter, and the cover makes a striking statement: a blood-spattered figure in a white jacket stands atop a heap of defeated, red-tinted bodies, pressing a hand to a bandaged head while clutching what appears to be a wrench. Simon Gough's coloring bathes the whole composition in a tense crimson palette that underscores just how punishing this world can be. If you've been following Ringside's gritty look at life behind the spectacle, issue five promises the stakes haven't let up one bit.