Rorschach #9

Tom King, Jorge Fornés, and Dave Stewart's Rorschach continues its unsettling noir investigation with issue nine, and the cover by Fornés says everything about the series' mood: a stark farmhouse silhouette — bare tree, windmill, a single red-lit door — looms above a sprawling crimson root system that mirrors the branching patterns of a skull, rendered in the series' signature cream, black, and blood-red palette. That image of something dark growing beneath an ordinary surface is quietly haunting in the best possible way. DC Black Label's mature-readers crime series remains one of 2021's most visually distinctive comics, and this chapter looks to dig even deeper into the darkness underneath.