The EC Archives: Impact #[nn]

Collecting all five issues of EC's short-lived but ambitious "New Direction" title, this Dark Horse archive brings together the complete run of Impact in one handsome volume. Jack Davis's cover sets the tone perfectly — a desperate figure in a trench coat lurches forward in a rain-slicked train station corridor, a shadowy suited man looming ominously in the background, with lightning flashing in the distance. With Davis handling both pencils and inks and Marie Severin's colors keeping the restored pages vibrant, this 2020 collection is a fine way to experience EC's storytelling ambitions beyond their horror titles.