Rorschach #7

Tom King, Jorge Fornés, and Dave Stewart's Rorschach #7 under DC Black Label continues to deliver the kind of unsettling atmosphere the series does so well. Fornés's cover is a masterwork of visual dread: a reel-to-reel tape recorder dominates the image, its two spools rendered as a pair of wide, watchful human eyes staring directly at you, while a thin red line bleeds down into a splash of crimson at the bottom. It's the sort of cover that lodges itself in your memory — surveillance, obsession, and violence distilled into a single unforgettable image.