Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born #5

The penultimate stretch of this seven-issue Marvel series brings one of Stephen King's Mid-World's most unsettling figures front and center — a gaunt, sharp-eyed old woman holding a grotesque, hairless creature while a serpent coils ominously at the bottom of the frame, all bathed in a sickly golden haze that Jae Lee renders with genuinely eerie precision. It's the kind of cover that lingers in the mind long after you've set the book down. With Peter David, Robin Furth, and Richard Isanove rounding out the creative team, The Gunslinger Born continues to be one of 2007's most atmospheric adaptations of King's sprawling saga.