Shaolin Cowboy: Cruel to Be Kin #5

The Shaolin Cowboy stands battered but unbowed at the center of this cover, blood-spattered in his orange shirt and wielding a staff while tattooed hands close in from every direction, pressing pistols and revolvers against him as a chaotic melee rages in the background. Darrow's art renders the sheer audacity of the scene with extraordinary linework — the surrounded warrior somehow radiating calm defiance amid the carnage. Issue five of Cruel to Be Kin promises the kind of outnumbered, hard-hitting action that makes this 2022 Dark Horse series so compulsively readable.