Rédemption #2

The second chapter of Tackian and Farkas's dark medieval series carries the stark subtitle Sacrifice, and the cover makes its weight felt immediately — a cloaked rider on a rearing black horse charges through a murky forest, a body sprawled on the ground below, while a second shadowy horseman looms in the background. The atmosphere is all dread and urgency, painted in deep earthy greens and browns that give Farkas's artwork a brooding, cinematic quality. If the 2015 series opener drew you in, this volume's imagery promises the tension is only deepening.