The Shade #10

The cover of The Shade #10 sets a genuinely unsettling tone, with the immortal Richard Swift reeling amid crackling supernatural lightning while a figure bearing an ornately decorated golden shield — etched with Egyptian-style hieroglyphs — looms against a swirling violet void. The bold tagline "How to Torture an Immortal!" makes it clear that issue ten of James Robinson's series is pressing hard on what it actually costs to live forever. Tony Harris's painted cover work gives the scene a moody, almost otherworldly atmosphere that fits perfectly alongside Frazer Irving's interior art.