The Ride: Burning Desire #1

Adam Hughes delivers a cover that perfectly captures the series' darkly playful tone — a blood-spattered woman in a hot-pink unicorn onesie stares coolly at the viewer, clutching a blood-stained paper bag decorated with hearts while yellow police tape stretches boldly across the foreground. The juxtaposition of whimsical costume and crime-scene atmosphere makes this first issue of The Ride: Burning Desire immediately arresting. With Doug Wagner writing and Daniel Hillyard on interior art, this 2019 Image Comics series announces itself as something genuinely, delightfully hard to categorize.