Stray Bullets: Sunshine & Roses #27

David Lapham's Stray Bullets: Sunshine & Roses reaches issue #27 with a cover that says everything about the series' unsettling charm — a dense crowd of smiling blonde women's faces pressed together alongside eerie, fanged gray masks, the cheerful and the grotesque inseparable from one another. The story title "Pretty on the Inside" lands with perfect irony against that image of surface sweetness wrapped around something darker. It's a compelling, quietly unnerving package from a creator in complete command of his craft.