American Vampire: Survival of the Fittest #3

Three figures in a small rowboat — one holding a lantern aloft — drift through dark, cave-like waters toward a massive, looming vampire silhouetted against a shaft of pale light, with a grim castle landscape stretching behind them. Sean Murphy's cover for this third chapter of the five-part Vertigo miniseries captures a sense of dread perfectly calibrated between the intimate and the monumental. Scott Snyder and Murphy's 2011 collaboration continues to deliver atmospheric tension that feels genuinely earned.