Bulletproof Coffin #3

Issue three of this six-part Image series arrives with a cover by Shaky Kane that's bold, brash, and impossible to ignore — a fierce blonde woman in a bikini aims an oversized pistol straight at the viewer while casually holding a comic book titled Ramona: Queen of the Stone Age, her speech bubble daring you with "Suck on THIS, punk!" The retrofuturist pulp energy Kane brings to The Bulletproof Coffin is on full display here, blending cheesecake bravado with that layered, comics-within-comics sensibility the series revels in. Written by David Hine and Shaky Kane with the story "Dead Finks Walking," this 2010 issue sits squarely at the heart of one of the more inventive miniseries Image published that year.