Sleeper: Season Two #10

Sean Phillips's cover for this penultimate issue of Sleeper: Season Two is quietly unsettling — a close, painterly portrait of a man rendered in near-monochrome, his face riddled with bullet holes as though he were nothing more than a paper target at a shooting range. It's a stark, economical image that captures everything Ed Brubaker and Phillips do so well in this Wildstorm series: the cold, bruising reality of a life lived deep undercover, where a person can be reduced to a target at any moment. A mature-readers espionage noir that has only grown more gripping as it approaches its conclusion.