Criminal Macabre: My Demon Baby #4

The concluding chapter of Steve Niles's "My Demon Baby" arc arrives with a striking Tim Bradstreet cover rendered in stark black and white — a grim-faced man in profile grips a large handgun while a serpentine skeletal creature coils beneath him, a rosary with a skull-adorned cross dangling nearby. The high-contrast, almost photorealistic composition perfectly captures the hard-boiled supernatural tension at the heart of a Cal McDonald mystery. With art by Nick Stakal and colors by Michelle Madsen inside, this 2008 Dark Horse finale promises a satisfying, darkly atmospheric payoff.