The Butcher of Paris #4

Issue four of Stephanie Phillips, Dean Kotz, Jason Wordie, and Troy Peteri's chilling true-crime series presents a striking cover that says everything without saying a word: a cold-eyed man in a suit stares outward, his hands visibly bloodstained, framed against a bold red-and-white star-spangled backdrop that carries an unsettling American resonance. The stark black-and-white rendering of the figure against that bold graphic background gives the image a noir intensity that's hard to shake. Dark Horse's The Butcher of Paris continues to prove itself one of 2020's most visually arresting crime titles.