Sam and Twitch #26

The cover by Ashley Wood sets a fittingly unsettling tone for "The John Doe Affair Part 7" — a close-cropped, painterly face rendered in moody washes of red and shadow dominates the image, half-obscured by darkness in a way that feels genuinely disquieting. Billed right on the cover as "hard-edged crime fiction," this 2004 Image series earns that label, and with the word FINALE stamped beneath the story title, there's real weight to this concluding chapter. Todd McFarlane and Paul Lee's gritty detective world wraps up its John Doe storyline here, making this an issue fans of street-level crime comics will want to track down.