The Names #8

As the penultimate chapter of Peter Milligan and Leandro Fernández's Vertigo thriller, issue #8 arrives in June 2015 with a cover by Celia Calle that is genuinely hard to look away from — pale, grasping hands pry open a dark coat to reveal a glowing skull where a torso should be, the image at once visceral and eerily beautiful. "The Dark Loops, Part II" promises the kind of unsettling psychological territory this mature-readers series has made its signature. With only one issue left to go, the tension is unmistakably building toward something.