Scene of the Crime #3

Ed Brubaker's noir mystery series reaches its penultimate chapter with this Vertigo installment, subtitled "A Little Piece of Goodnight." Michael Lark's cover pulls no punches — a bloodied, battered man stares up in desperation as a gun is pressed to his temple, conveying the raw, street-level tension that defines this series. With Lark handling both pencils and inks on the cover, every grim detail lands with the clean, unsparing weight that makes Scene of the Crime one of 1999's most compelling crime comics.