Berserk #36

This is the back cover of Berserk Vol. 36, the manga reader-orientation page that Dark Horse included to welcome newcomers to right-to-left reading format. The sample panels visible here offer a tantalizing glimpse of Guts in tense confrontation — a close-up of his scarred, intense face dominates the top, while lower panels show a cloaked figure at a city gate, a prison wagon carrying women and children, and a mayor insisting on his duty to protect his town. At $14.99, this 2012 Dark Horse volume delivers Kentaro Miura's uncompromising dark fantasy in the authentic Japanese reading orientation that honors the original artwork.