Sin City: Hell and Back #9

The penultimate chapter of Frank Miller's Sin City: Hell and Back gives way to the finale with this penultimate — wait, it's issue 9 of 9, the grand conclusion to this A Sin City Love Story arc. Miller's cover places a knife-wielding woman in red face-to-face with a heavily armed, masked figure in black, their exchange captured in speech bubbles — "Where do you think you're going?" met with the cool reply about working up the food chain. The tension between these two figures, rendered in Miller's stark linework with that signature blue-green atmosphere, makes for a cover that captures Sin City's gritty, hard-boiled spirit perfectly as the nine-issue run reaches its end.