The Beauty #5

The Beauty #5 presents one of the series' most unsettling images: a figure whose pale, cracked skin is splitting apart like dried clay reaches toward an ornate chain adorned with tiny skull-shaped charms, mouth open in what reads as anguish or desperate longing. Jeremy Haun's cover linework — rendered here with striking detail and colored by John Rauch in cool, ashen tones punctuated by warm gold — makes the contrast between beauty and decay feel genuinely visceral. If this Image series has been on your radar, issue #5 makes a compelling case for why its 2015 run earned attention.