Citizen Rex #4

Four issues into this six-part Dark Horse series, Mario and Gilbert Hernandez deliver a cover that crackles with kinetic energy: a sleek, dark figure with glowing eyes leaps dynamically above a crowd of battered, expressionless robots, a brown fedora tumbling through the air nearby. The robots — varied in shape, with flat metallic faces and unsettling yellow eyes — loom large in the foreground, giving the scene a wonderfully eerie tension between this agile, shadowy figure and the mechanical mass below. It's the kind of pulpy, stylish image that makes you want to flip straight to the last page just to see how it all unfolds.