Swan Songs #5

Swan Songs #5 brings W. Maxwell Prince and Alex Eckman-Lawn's unsettling anthology series to its penultimate chapter with "The End of Anhedonia" — a title that already hums with quiet dread. Eckman-Lawn's cover does exactly what great horror art should: a figure in a collared shirt has his face replaced by a vast, layered, cavernous open mouth, rendered in deep reds and earthy tones against a cold, smoky background, making something deeply ordinary feel profoundly wrong. If this series has been on your radar, issue five from Image Comics is the kind of haunting visual package that makes it hard to look away.