Unknown Soldier #11

Vertigo's Unknown Soldier #11 (2009) arrives at the fourth chapter of "Easy Kill" with a cover by Dave Johnson that is quietly unsettling in the best possible way — the bandage-wrapped face of the Soldier looms large, intense eyes staring out from the wrappings, while below him a young woman sits curled and ensnared by those same trailing bandages against a muted, jungle-tinged backdrop. Joshua Dysart and Alberto Ponticelli's collaboration continues to explore one of Vertigo's more grounded and morally complex corners of war comics, and this image captures that tension between protector and threat with real visual economy.