Clive Barker's Hellraiser #17

Clive Barker's Hellraiser continues its mature, unflinching run at BOOM! Studios with this seventeenth issue, its Cover A dominated by an unsettling close-up of a scarred, grimacing figure rendered in deep crimson and shadow — the kind of visceral, painterly image that signals the series hasn't softened its edge one bit. The detail work on the tortured flesh and reaching hand gives the cover a raw, almost tactile intensity that fits perfectly within the dark mythology Barker built. Fans of serious horror comics in 2012 had plenty of reason to keep this series on their pull list.