Shade, the Changing Man #57

Issue #57 of Peter Milligan, Mark Buckingham, and Rick Bryant's DC Vertigo series arrives with a striking cover by Duncan Fegredo: a woman rendered in deep purples and blues holds a strip of photographs close to her lips, her expression intent and guarded, while the warm amber glow of a coffee shop window — Rico's Fine Coffee — frames her from behind. The doubling motif is right there in the title, "Double Exposure," echoed in those photo-strip images she clutches, suggesting layers of identity and reflection that have always been at the heart of this series. It's a quietly unsettling image that captures the moody, introspective tone Shade the Changing Man does so well.