The Names #4

Peter Milligan and Leandro Fernández's The Names reaches its midpoint with this fourth installment of the nine-issue Vertigo series, subtitled "The Surgeon's Cut, Part I." Celia Calle's cover is a striking overhead composition — scattered black shoes, splashes of blood, and a gold-framed painting overlaid with an American flag — suggesting wealth, violence, and power all converging in a single chaotic moment. It's a deliberately unsettling image that sets a tense, sophisticated tone for this mature-readers thriller.