Scalped #43

This 2011 Vertigo entry in Jason Aaron's gritty reservation noir finds a mustachioed lawman — badge on his chest, cigarette smoke curling upward — leaning back at a desk strewn with papers, while an enormous pair of shoes looms in the foreground, suggesting a power dynamic that's anything but comfortable. Below the title, shadowy figures press against what appears to be a chain-link fence or cell bars, adding another layer of tension to Jock's striking, sepia-tinged cover composition. With Jason Latour's art inside and a story titled "A Come-to-Jesus," this issue promises the kind of moral reckoning that has made Scalped one of Vertigo's most compelling ongoing series.