Stray Dogs #5

The penultimate chapter of this 2021 Image series delivers a cover that is genuinely unsettling in the best way — a wall of "Lost Dog" flyers, each featuring a different missing animal, is drenched in a sickly green light and scattered with vivid red bloodsplatter, while a heavy chain looms at the top of the image and an ominous shadow stretches across the bottom. Trish Forstner's linework and inking, paired with Brad Simpson's eerie color work, transforms something as heartbreaking as missing-pet posters into something deeply foreboding. If this cover is any indication, "Chapter 5: Bad Dog" brings the tension of Tony Fleecs and Forstner's acclaimed series to a dark and gripping place.