Shame #2

John Bolton's painted cover for Shame #2 sets an immediately arresting tone — a young woman with a cascade of wild crimson hair stands amid swirling dark tendrils, her tattooed torso and pale skin a striking contrast against the encroaching shadows that seem to reach for her. The subtitle "Pursuit" feels perfectly embodied in that tension between vulnerability and defiance radiating from her pose. Lovern Kindzierski and Bolton bring a dark, painterly sensibility to this 2013 Renegade Arts Entertainment series that feels genuinely unlike anything else on the shelf.