The Names #9

The penultimate chapter of Peter Milligan and Leandro Fernández's financial-conspiracy thriller reaches its conclusion here, and Celia Calle's cover captures the tension beautifully — two figures, a man in a brown suit and a woman in white, tumble or lurch through a vertiginous urban canyon of glass skyscrapers while an enormous, watchful eye looms in the teal sky above them, suggesting that someone — or something — is always observing. It's a striking piece of design work that speaks to the series' themes of surveillance, power, and paranoia. With "The Dark Loops, Conclusion" landing in this ninth and final issue from Vertigo, readers who've followed the conspiracy to its end will find a cover that promises the walls are very much closing in.