Crude #3

Garry Brown's cover for this third chapter of Steve Orlando's Crude is a striking portrait of menace — a hard-faced man in a suit and tie stares grimly into the distance while black oil bleeds down over him, industrial drilling rigs silhouetted in fiery red below. The teal machinery looming in the background and the dripping crude swallowing his figure give the image a suffocating, corrupt weight that says everything about the world this series inhabits. If you've been following this Skybound thriller, issue three looks like the tension is about to get much harder to contain.