The Woods #5

The fifth issue of BOOM! Studios' The Woods presents a quietly unsettling cover by Michael Dialynas: two teenagers — a pink-haired girl and a red-haired boy with a backpack — stand at the jagged boundary between an alien, purple-hued forest and a familiar school hallway lined with lockers, a small strange creature crouched at their feet and a third figure visible deeper inside the corridor. That visual divide between the eerie unknown and the mundane world of high school captures exactly the tension James Tynion IV and Dialynas have been building throughout the series. If you've been following this survival tale, issue five looks set to push its characters deeper into that unsettling overlap between two very different realities.