The Cape #1

From the writer of Locke & Key, IDW's The Cape #1 arrives with a tone that's anything but heroic — cover artist Zach Howard sets the mood perfectly with a fist-clenched man in a tattered, lightning-bolt-marked cape surging upward through storm clouds beneath a cold full moon, his expression dark and determined rather than triumphant. It's a superhero image deliberately stripped of warmth, suggesting power worn by someone who probably shouldn't have it. Jason Ciaramella and Howard team up for what promises to be a grounded, unsettling take on what it might really mean to fly.