The Boys #41

Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson's mature-readers series continues with issue forty-one of The Boys, and Darick Robertson's cover makes an immediate impression: a close-up portrait of a bald, bearded man wearing a wide, unsettling grin fills the frame as though snapped in a candid photograph, the casual blue-sky backdrop doing nothing to soften that deeply knowing smirk. It's a deceptively simple composition that carries a quiet menace, exactly the kind of tonal balance Ennis and Robertson brought to this series throughout its run. "The Innocents — Part Two" promises that whatever this grinning figure is involved in, it's anything but innocent.