Underheist #1

This opening issue from BOOM! Studios announces itself with a striking movie-poster-style cover by David Lapham, assembling a cast of morally ambiguous characters — a sharp-faced young man split between light and shadow dominates the top half, flanked by a determined woman in red and a cooler, more calculating brunette. Below them, a rotating ensemble of players fills the frame: a grinning man with a gun slung over his shoulder, a poised woman in blue, an older man clutching a pistol, a suited figure holding stacks of cash, and a cool-eyed man in a blazer, all looming over a frenzied crowd and a building caught mid-explosion — with a pentagram silhouetted against the night sky tying it all together. Written by the Laphams and colored by Hilary Jenkins, Underheist #1 sets up what promises to be a wickedly layered crime thriller with a supernatural edge.