The Black Hood #4

Dark Circle Comics' gritty Black Hood series hits issue #4 with a cover by Greg Smallwood that says everything without showing a face — a lone figure in a dark jacket stands with his back to us, a stark white crosshair painted squarely between his shoulders, its red center dot a quiet jolt of danger against the near-total black. The image distills the series' noir tension into a single, quietly unnerving composition: someone is being hunted. Writer Duane Swierczynski and artist Greg Scott continue their hard-edged collaboration here, promising another chapter of the kind of street-level thriller that makes this 2017 Dark Circle run such a compelling read.