Unknown Soldier #8

Vertigo's Eisner-nominated series continues with Unknown Soldier #8, opening the "Easy Kill" arc with a cover by Dave Johnson that's hard to look away from — a bandaged, blood-spattered figure surrounded by a press corps of camera-wielding photographers, their lenses all trained inward in an unsettling swarm. The image captures the series' grim tension between violence and visibility, war and witness, in a single arresting composition. With Joshua Dysart writing and Alberto Ponticelli on art, this 2009 issue promises the same unflinching storytelling that earned the book its award recognition.