Elephantmen #5

This fifth volume of Image's mature-readers Elephantmen series, subtitled Devilish Functions, arrives in 2012 with a cover that pulls no punches — a massive, muscle-bound boar-human hybrid looms over a smaller, skeletal insectoid creature rendered in unsettling detail, the globe-like mass of the larger figure suggesting raw, unstoppable power. The creative team of Starkings, Medellin, Shaky Kane, Roshell, and Cook brings a visceral, high-energy aesthetic to this collection that perfectly suits the series' gritty world of hybrid soldiers and moral complexity. Fans of bold, imaginative science fiction with an edge will find this volume hard to put down.