The Boys #39

Garth Ennis and John McCrea's mature-readers series continues with issue thirty-nine, featuring a cover by Darick Robertson that immediately sets a charged, uneasy mood. Bathed in a stark spotlight, a bald man in a dark coat embraces a golden-caped superheroine in midair — while five silhouetted figures watch from below, one of them noticeably bound at their feet. That tension between the illuminated couple above and the shadowy observers below captures everything The Boys does so well: the uneasy relationship between power and those tasked with keeping it in check.