Secret Six #8

A wide-eyed man in a sleek metallic suit stares directly at the reader against a blazing red background, a blade pressed unnervingly to his own chin — it's an image that radiates tension without saying a word. Gail Simone's Secret Six was consistently one of DC's most daring team books in 2009, and this Nicola Scott cover captures that edge-of-a-knife energy perfectly. With Rodriguez and Bit handling interior art on "Double Date," issue #8 promises the kind of morally complicated fun that made this series so compulsively readable.