The Shade #9

Tony Harris's cover for issue #9 of James Robinson's The Shade mini-series sets an atmospheric, deeply unsettling tone: the top-hatted, dark-cloaked Shade looms against a backdrop of Egyptian hieroglyphics and papyrus imagery, a tangle of skeletal figures writhing at his feet while a pyramid and sphinx glow an ominous crimson behind him. The teaser "Who Is… the Celestial Pharaoh?" promises a mystery that spans centuries and continents, perfectly echoed by the story title "Of London Now and Egypt Then." With Frazer Irving handling interiors, this 2012 DC series continues to be one of the more richly atmospheric corners of the New 52.