Unknown Soldier #3

The third chapter of Garth Ennis and Kilian Plunkett's four-part Vertigo miniseries finds the bandage-faced Unknown Soldier looming large over a crowd of armed militia, a rifle raised across his chest against a backdrop of revolutionary propaganda — a Spanish-language Sandinista poster visible on the crumbling wall behind him. Tim Bradstreet's cover art grounds the tension in something more intimate as well, with a lone suited figure kneeling quietly among cemetery headstones in the foreground, the contrast between mass conflict and solitary grief hitting with quiet force. It's a striking composition that captures the series' gritty, war-torn atmosphere right as the story builds toward its conclusion.