The Beauty #21

Image's unsettling creator-owned series reaches its 21st issue with a cover by Thomas Nachlik that's equal parts glamour and unease. A pale, slack-jawed figure slumps in a dark armchair, head tilted back as if lost in a daze, dangling a pair of glasses from one hand while sporting striking rhinestone-studded loafers and red fishnet socks beneath a floral shirt. The tension between those dazzling shoes and the figure's pallid, almost corpse-like stillness captures exactly the kind of beautiful-yet-wrong atmosphere that has made The Beauty one of Image's most quietly compelling titles.