Unknown Soldier #2

Issue two of Garth Ennis and Kilian Plunkett's four-part Vertigo miniseries deepens the tension with a striking cover by Tim Bradstreet — the bandage-wrapped face of the Unknown Soldier dominates the foreground, impassive and eerily still, while behind him a desperate struggle unfolds as one figure presses a gun against another against a fiery orange sky. Military helicopters cut through the smoky silhouette of jungle palms in the background, grounding the scene in the brutal, high-stakes world this 1997 series inhabits. If the moody atmosphere of Bradstreet's cover is any indication, "Book Two" promises no shortage of conflict and moral complexity.