Underheist #5

The fifth chapter of BOOM! Studios' Underheist arrives with a cover that practically dares you to look away — a masked figure's single, unsettling eye stares out from behind newspaper headlines screaming about stolen money and a thief still on the loose, while a gritty urban backdrop of chain-link fences and barbed wire fills the frame. David Lapham's linework, inked by his own hand, gives the whole composition a raw, paranoid energy that feels perfectly suited to a caper gone complicated. If the series has been building tension, this penultimate-feeling image suggests the walls — and the press — are closing in fast.