Rorschach #5

Tom King, Jorge Fornés, and Dave Stewart's DC Black Label series reaches its fifth chapter with a cover that speaks volumes through elegant simplicity — a lone silhouette strides across a vast, burning-red landscape, a massive golden sun at their back, while military helicopters drift across the horizon above a tree line of distant palms and a watchtower. Fornés's minimalist composition evokes something haunted and cinematic, the kind of image that lingers long after you've set the issue down. If the series has been building toward something dark and ambitious, this striking cover suggests the story is well and truly in its depths.