Sex Criminals #20

Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky's boundary-pushing series reaches its twentieth issue with a cover that feels quietly devastating — a dark-haired woman in a red top gazes downward, rendered in a painterly, almost mournful style that sets a strikingly intimate tone. Zdarsky's cover work here trades the series' usual irreverence for something more tender and introspective, with soft brushwork framing her expression in shades of warm ochre and shadow. Subtitled "Outs," this 2017 Image Comics entry signals that the emotional stakes of the story are running deep.