Southern Bastards #2

The second chapter of Jason Aaron and Jason Latour's gritty Southern crime series keeps the atmosphere thick and the tension simmering. Latour's cover places a weathered figure front and center — back turned to us, a revolver tucked into his waistband — while the red-drenched background reveals a football scoreboard reading "Runnin' Rebs" and the ghostly silhouettes of players on the field, painting a world where small-town football and dangerous men share the same air. It's a quietly menacing image that makes clear Calhoun County, Alabama has its own brutal rules.