Seduction of the Innocent #3

Dynamite's Seduction of the Innocent #3 promises the kind of shadowy, hard-boiled tension its cover delivers so well — a trench-coated figure in a fedora pressing himself against a darkened doorway, bathed in a stark red-and-black palette that radiates genuine menace. Francesco Francavilla's cover art captures the nerve-fraying mood of classic crime pulp with confident, moody linework. With Ande Parks writing and Esteve Polls on interior art, this 2016 "Crime" installment — subtitled "Topsy-Turvy" — looks like exactly the kind of dark, atmospheric thriller that earns the tagline "Horrific Tales of True Crime in the Dynamite Tradition.