The Beauty #28

The Beauty has always balanced dread with dark elegance, and issue #28 pulls that off beautifully on its cover alone — a woman with porcelain-white, cracked skin stands hands-on-hips, her face tilted upward and mouth open in what reads as either anguish or ecstasy, her elaborate black dress a striking contrast against her fractured, almost shattered form. Jeremy Haun's cover pencils render the figure with real craft, capturing the series' signature tension between allure and body horror in a single, unsettling pose. If this is your first time picking up The Beauty or your twenty-eighth, this 2019 Image issue announces itself with quiet confidence.