V for Vendetta #5

Volume V of X in Alan Moore and David Lloyd's ten-part series, this 1988 DC issue sets an unsettling scene right on its cover: a wrecked television studio, its NTV camera toppled and debris scattered across the floor, while two figures in dark coats survey the damage beneath a monitor asking "What's My Line?" — a question that feels anything but innocent here. A uniformed authority figure looms in the foreground, and above it all, a shadowy vignette hints at violence already visited upon the control room. Lloyd's moody, painterly cover work (with colors by Siobhan Dodds and Steve Whitaker) captures the series' atmosphere of surveillance, disruption, and a totalitarian state pushed to its edges.