The Shadow #18

Dynamite's The Shadow #18 brings Alex Ross's painterly cover work to striking effect, depicting the Shadow as a solitary, cloaked silhouette standing atop a girder high above a sprawling city bathed in warm sunset hues — a figure of quiet menace poised between the skyline and the clouds. That red scarf catching the wind and the sweeping black cape give the image an almost cinematic stillness that suits the character perfectly. Inside, writer Chris Roberson and artist Giovanni Timpano continue their run on one of pulp fiction's most enduring crimefighters.