Animal Man #62

Few covers in 1993 stopped readers cold quite like this one — a bloodied, battle-scarred rabbit fills the frame, staring out with an unsettling intensity against a fiery sunset sky, while the silhouettes of more rabbits loom ominously in the background. Brian Bolland's painted-precision cover work renders every torn ear and red-stained muzzle with a photorealistic detail that feels genuinely unnerving. Part two of the "Tooth and Claw" arc, with Jamie Delano writing and Steve Pugh on interior art, this DC/Vertigo issue makes it clear that nature, in this corner of the DC Universe, is anything but gentle.