Stray Bullets: Sunshine & Roses #10

David Lapham's Stray Bullets: Sunshine & Roses continues its unflinching look at desperate lives with issue #10, "Enough Rope." The cover, rendered entirely by Lapham, captures three figures — a sullen young woman with her arms crossed, a lean man eating takeout cross-legged on a couch, and a wide-eyed guy in an Orioles jersey — in a moment of thick, uneasy quiet that says plenty without a word. It's the kind of charged, lived-in tension that makes this 2015 series one of crime comics' most compelling ongoing reads.