Butcher Baker, the Righteous Maker #5

Mike Huddleston's cover for issue #5 of Joe Casey's Butcher Baker, the Righteous Maker is a genuinely wild piece of work — a figure in a military-style jacket sports lightning-bolt shades and a cigarette while an explosive psychedelic burst of color erupts from where his face should be, sending a top hat spinning off into the void. The swirling, almost cosmic energy radiating from that blank-faced silhouette captures the series' gleefully unhinged energy perfectly. If this 2011 Image series has been on your radar, this cover alone makes a compelling case to jump in.