'68: Last Rites #3

Image's Vietnam-era horror series reaches its penultimate chapter with '68: Last Rites #3, and Nat Jones's cover art makes an immediate, visceral impression — a rotting, decomposed zombie face fills the frame almost entirely, its hollow sockets blazing with molten orange-yellow light and its cracked, gaping jaw bared in a relentless snarl, all framed within a rifle scope's crosshairs. The detail work from Jones is genuinely unsettling, capturing the series' grim fusion of war-story tension and undead horror in a single unflinching close-up. With Mark Kidwell writing, Jeff Zornow on interior art, and Jay Fotos coloring, Last Rites continues to be one of the more committed horror comics Image was publishing in 2015.