Suicide Squad: Blaze #2

The second chapter of this DC Black Label prestige series arrives with a cover that is genuinely hard to look away from — a massive, skull-crowned dark figure enthroned amid ornate gothic architecture clutches two limp bodies, while a Superman-costumed figure hangs grotesquely before it, and a kneeling man in the foreground stares upward in apparent dread. Aaron Campbell's painted-style artwork, saturated in sickly purples and cold greens by Jordie Bellaire, radiates a menace that feels a long way from mainstream superhero fare. Simon Spurrier's mature-readers take on the Suicide Squad clearly has no interest in pulling punches, and this striking image makes a compelling case for picking up Book Two.