Sidekick #9

Straczynski, Mandrake, and HiFi bring a genuinely unsettling mood to this 2014 Joe's Comics/Image series with a cover that's hard to look away from: a dark-robed, masked figure looms over a cemetery, gripping a sword with both hands beneath a blood-red sky, while a young woman in purple lies motionless among the twisted branches and tombstones below. The gravestone details — bearing the creators' own names — add a wry, chilling touch to Tom Mandrake's atmospheric linework. "A Moment of Silence" promises exactly the kind of brooding, high-stakes tension that has made Sidekick one of the more compelling superhero deconstructions of its era.