The Exorcism at 1600 Penn #2

The second chapter of IDW's unsettling White House horror series frames its cover as a formal portrait gone deeply wrong — a pale, wide-eyed woman in a red dress sits in an ornate chair, her expression disturbingly vacant, while three figures stand behind her in an elegant, curtained room watched over by a painting of George Washington and an American flag. Vanesa Del Rey's painted cover art carries a creeping unease beneath its composed, almost regal composition, the framing device of a gilded picture frame making it feel like something sinister has been preserved for posterity. Hannah Rose May's supernatural political thriller continues to mine genuinely eerie territory with this 2024 installment from IDW.