The Empty Man #1

Cullen Bunn and Vanesa R. Del Rey bring something genuinely unsettling to BOOM! Studios with this opening issue, its cover depicting several figures sprawled across the ground — some motionless, while a man in a suit and a woman in white stare upward with hollow, haunted expressions. The crimson-drenched atmosphere and overhead perspective give the image an almost forensic chill, as though the viewer is looking down on the aftermath of something deeply wrong. If 2014 horror comics are your thing, The Empty Man announces itself with quiet dread and confident craft right from the very first page.