Berserker Unbound #4

Jeff Lemire and Mike Deodato Jr.'s Berserker Unbound reaches its fourth issue with a cover that crackles with raw tension — a bald, bearded man in modern clothing swings a bloodied axe through a misty forest while two menacing, wolf-like warrior figures close in behind him, one gripping a shield and hammer. Deodato Jr.'s painterly rendering gives the confrontation a gritty, almost cinematic weight, with falling leaves and tangled branches lending the scene an eerie, otherworldly atmosphere. If the series has been building toward something savage, this cover makes a compelling case that issue four is where things get serious.