The Ninjettes #2

Spinning out of the pages of Jennifer Blood, this 2012 Dynamite series brings its sharply dressed, sword-carrying young women into the spotlight — and issue #2 keeps the tension building. Admira Wijaya's cover centers on a short-haired blonde woman, a katana strapped across her back, her gaze cool and guarded against a warm, fiery background; inset below her is a more somber image of another young woman kneeling alone before a gravestone in muted blue tones. The visual contrast between the blade-ready foreground figure and that quiet, grief-touched vignette suggests these Ninjettes carry weight well beyond their weapons, with Al Ewing's story — "Like the Gas Chamber, A Real Fun Gal" — promising the darkly witty edge the title implies.