The Nice House by the Sea #7

A painter sits quietly amid scattered cans and brushes, paint-splattered floor beneath their feet, while behind them a vast wasteland of wrecked cars and crumbling industrial structures stretches toward a hazy, golden horizon — and a dark, looming shadow falls across the scene with an unsettling presence. Álvaro Martínez Bueno's painterly cover for issue #7 captures that distinctive tension The Nice House by the Sea does so well: something deceptively still, with menace lurking just at the edge. James Tynion IV's series continues to be one of DC/Vertigo's most visually arresting ongoing titles, and Jordie Bellaire's warm, glowing palette makes this particular cover genuinely hard to look away from.