Battlepug #1

Few comic covers dare to pair sword-and-sorcery heroics with an enormous, tongue-lolling pug in a spiked collar — and yet here we are, and it works beautifully. Mike Norton's cover art delivers a muscle-bound barbarian warrior, sword raised and dark hair flying, charging into battle astride a magnificently oversized pug through a ruined fantasy landscape scattered with bones and crumbling towers. Image Comics brings this delightfully absurd adventure to print in 2019, and the premise alone — part epic fantasy, part sheer canine charm — makes issue #1 an easy pick up.