Secret Six #14

There's something wonderfully absurd about the cover of Secret Six #14 (July 2016), where Dale Eaglesham stages the team's rogues' gallery — including a horned demon, a green tentacled creature, a masked figure lounging on a lawn chair, a woman with a severed head in a cooler, a garden gnome toting a weapon, and several more colorful characters — as though it's just a casual backyard barbecue. The sheer density of delightfully dangerous personalities crowded around a grill, trading drinks and plates of meat, captures exactly the darkly comic energy that makes Gail Simone's writing on this title so appealing. If you've been following this New 52-era incarnation of DC's most unpredictable team, this issue's cover promises the kind of chaotic camaraderie that keeps fans coming back.