Scalped #25

Five stark white silhouettes stand and sit among towering casino poker chips on Jock's striking cover — a lone figure sprawled to the left, two women poised atop the stacks, and two men in the foreground, the largest looming large and close. It's a quietly unsettling image that captures the tension and isolation at the heart of Jason Aaron and R.M. Guéra's Vertigo crime series, set on a Native American reservation where gambling money and desperation collide. "High Lonesome Part One of Five" kicks off a new arc in 2009, and that title alone promises something bleak and compelling is on the way.