Battle Pope #12

Battle Pope keeps its irreverent energy cranked up in issue #12 from Image, featuring the gun-toting, mitre-wearing pontiff charging through a rubble-strewn city street while a companion races alongside him and a looming mechanical sphere — with a demonic figure perched atop it — dominates the fiery background. The tagline says it all: "When he's not leadin' mass, he's out kickin' ass!" It's the kind of gloriously over-the-top action cover that makes this Kirkman, Moore, and Staples series impossible to ignore.