The Shadow #3

Garth Ennis and Aaron Campbell's "The Fire of Creation" reaches its third chapter with a cover by Alex Ross that puts the Shadow front and center — crimson cape billowing, twin pistols blazing, crashing through a shattered floor in a storm of broken wood and glass while desperate hands reach up from below. Ross's painted composition pulls you straight into the chaos, looking down on the Shadow mid-action with the kind of painterly intensity that makes this 2012 Dynamite series genuinely hard to put down.