The Scumbag #3

The tagline says it all — "The world's fate rests with the worst person on it" — and issue #3 of Rick Remender and Eric Powell's The Scumbag leans right into that absurd, high-octane premise. Powell's cover painting depicts a shirtless, wide-eyed slacker and a sharp, gun-wielding woman standing back-to-back atop a heap of fallen bodies, an inferno of orange and black smoke roiling behind them. It's a striking image that captures the series' delirious collision of spy-thriller stakes and deeply unlikely heroism.