V for Vendetta #8

Volume VIII of Alan Moore and David Lloyd's celebrated series opens its third book with a cover that's genuinely unsettling in the best way — carnival carousel horses burst free against a dark sky above the masked figure of V and a wide-eyed young woman, while monolithic speaker towers loom at the right, creating a collision of whimsy and authoritarian dread. David Lloyd's painted cover work here is striking, layering ornate, colorful merry-go-round horses in mid-flight against the oppressive backdrop of a totalitarian cityscape. "The Land of Do-As-You-Please" promises a new chapter in this 1989 DC mature-readers series, and this prologue issue sets a mood that is anything but reassuring.