Deadly Class #34

Deadly Class #34 continues the "Love Like Blood" arc at Part 3, and Wesley Craig's cover makes an immediate, visceral impression — a blood-soaked figure in a hooded garment screams upward while clutching a snake, looming over another figure sprawled upside-down below, knife in hand amid a sea of crimson chaos. The stark two-tone palette of red, black, and white gives the whole image a raw, almost woodcut intensity that feels perfectly suited to Rick Remender's brutal world of teenage assassins set against a 1988 backdrop. With Craig's linework this sharp and Jordan Boyd's stripped-down coloring this effective, this is the kind of cover that stops you cold in the middle of a comics rack.