100 Bullets #6

This sixth volume of Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso's Vertigo crime series delivers a striking cover image — a pale, red-eyed figure in a suit holds a gun like a puppeteer's crossbar, with five miniature coffins, each bearing a different face, dangling beneath it like marionettes. The subtitle "Six Feet Under the Gun" makes the stakes unmistakably clear, and the design's stark black-and-white contrast against those vividly colored coffins gives the whole thing an unsettling, almost elegant menace. If you've been following this morally intricate noir from Azzarello and Risso, this collection is a natural next chapter.