'68 Jungle Jim #3

The third installment of this four-part Image series drops readers straight into a Vietnam War nightmare, with the cover showing the gas-masked soldier known as Jungle Jim crouched against a jungle tree, gripping a combat knife and a bandolier-loaded weapon while a horde of rotting zombies — including a Vietnamese undead in a conical hat — closes in from all sides. Jeff Zornow's cover linework is visceral and atmospheric, bathing the dense jungle in sickly yellows and greens that make the encroaching dead feel genuinely oppressive. With Mark Kidwell's story "Hellhole: Change... It Had to Come" and Jay Fotos's moody colors rounding out the package, this 2013 series continues to deliver war-horror with real grit.