The Mercenary Sea #5

The fifth chapter of Kel Symons and Mathew Reynolds's sun-soaked wartime adventure series stages its tension beautifully on this cover: a soldier atop a rumbling tank fires into the dusk while silhouetted figures crouch in the foreground amid shadowy palm trees, the whole scene bathed in Reynolds's striking amber and violet palette. That contrast between the glowing muzzle flash and the deep tropical shadows gives the image a cinematic pull that fits the pulpy WWII-era tone the series has delivered since issue one. "Marche of the Grenadiers" promises the kind of boots-and-treads ground combat that fans of this series have come to relish.