Descending into our own private hell on 4/9

Criminal Vol. 2 #2
Not that much to dig into here, since Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips are still filling in their world's fossil record with some particularly brutish dinosaurs; the new storyarc proper begins next issue [EDIT: nope, it's actually the issue after that]. Craft abounds, though. You can't waste a title like "A Wolf Among Wolves", and they don't: when the face of protagonist Teeg Lawless does shift to something other than a variety of cold slate, it's usually to bare his teeth. The use of blank black panels when he's blind drunk is nicely done as well. Even better that they disappear when the really bad shit goes down - Lawless is still boozing, but he also knows exactly what he's doing. And a potential spasm of mawkishness at the end - thinking of his sons' innocent eyes etc - is cruelly and casually revealed to be no consolation at all. If Phillips hadn't drawn this, you could almost call it unpleasant.