Sleeper #3

Sean Phillips's cover for this third issue of Sleeper is a quietly arresting portrait — a red-haired woman in a teal dress gazes back over her shoulder with cool, calculating eyes, her crimson-tipped fingers and guarded expression radiating dangerous elegance. Ed Brubaker and Phillips's WildStorm noir series continues with "Secrets and Lies, Part Two," and this image alone makes clear why the title earns its mature-readers label. If you've been following this shadowy world of double lives and deception, issue #3 is exactly where you want to be.