Stray Bullets: Sunshine & Roses #16

David Lapham's Stray Bullets: Sunshine & Roses continues its gritty, crime-soaked run with issue #16, "Doctor Reynolds." The cover — drawn and inked entirely by Lapham — peers through a circular vignette to reveal a tense cluster of characters: a dark-haired woman, a heavyset figure bound in chains, a man with his tongue out and a knife in hand, a gun-wielding tough, and a wide-eyed blonde in the foreground, all radiating barely-contained chaos. It's the kind of sharply observed, street-level tension that makes this series one of crime comics' most compelling ongoing reads in 2016.