The Nice House by the Sea #5

James Tynion IV's unsettling Vertigo series continues with issue #5, and Álvaro Martínez Bueno's cover sets the mood perfectly: a solitary figure sits at a wooden desk with a teal typewriter, pages scattered across the floor, while a landscape of fire and devastation burns in the distance behind them. The quiet tension between that lone, contemplative person and the apocalyptic world consuming the horizon is exactly the kind of dread this series does so well. Colorist Jordie Bellaire bathes the scene in smoky oranges and muted tones that make the contrast between stillness and catastrophe feel deeply uneasy.