Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder #5

The penultimate chapter of Dan Watters, Michele Bandini, and Marco Lesko's Shredder miniseries arrives with a cover by Mateus Santolouco that demands attention: an armored, caped warrior rides a snarling, heavily plated dinosaur mount into the foreground, while the massive, glowering face of Shredder looms over everything in the background like a storm about to break. It's a striking composition that positions the Shredder mythos in something grander and more mythic than familiar street-level territory. "Chapter Five: Butcher's Blade" looks to deliver on every bit of that promise.