The Hard Place #5

The Hard Place wraps up its run with a striking cover by Brian Stelfreeze — a stern, weathered face emerges from a burst of red and gold smoke, his expression radiating cold authority, while four detailed signet rings bearing Cyrillic inscriptions and varied emblems are arrayed in the foreground. That combination of a looming, almost ghost-like portrait and those rings heavy with symbolic weight says everything about the kind of crime-drenched world this series has inhabited. A fitting visual punctuation mark for Image's gritty thriller from 2017.