The Mask: I Pledge Allegiance to the Mask #3

Three determined figures strain together to plant a flag bearing the Mask's grinning green face — a striking riff on one of history's most recognizable wartime images — making this Dark Horse cover one of the most visually arresting of the 2019 series. Christopher Cantwell's writing and Patric Reynolds's painterly linework (with Lee Loughridge's moody coloring) have brought a genuinely unsettling, politically charged energy to this run, and that subtitle, I Pledge Allegiance to the Mask, says everything about the dangerous cult of personality at the story's heart. If you've been following this miniseries, issue #3 promises to push that tension even further.