The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos #15

A chess match in a mist-shrouded forest sets an quietly unsettling tone for issue #15 of this Dark Horse series — Christopher, blue-haired and red-eyed in his yellow jacket, studies the board intently across from a composed, dark-haired man in suspenders, while shadowy figures loom at the edges of the trees. Nick Robles's cover art makes the scene feel both intimate and ominous, the scattered autumn leaves and bare branches lending the whole thing a melancholy, fairy-tale atmosphere. With Tate Brombal writing, Isaac Goodhart on interior art, and colors by Miquel Muerto, this series continues to find genuine tension in the spaces between the ordinary and the strange.