Sleeper: Season Two #12

Sean Phillips's cover for this final issue of Sleeper: Season Two says everything without a word — a lone gunman, both pistols raised and chest spattered with red, stands wide-legged against a cold cityscape rendered in muted greens and grays. The image carries the weight of a story that has always lived in the morally complicated space between "Heroes and Villains," the title of this concluding chapter. Ed Brubaker and Phillips close out their WildStorm noir with the kind of unflinching image that makes the mature-readers label feel entirely earned.