Deathbed #4

From Vertigo's wildly inventive 2018 series, Deathbed #4 pulls you into a landscape that feels equal parts adventure pulp and fever dream. Riley Rossmo's cover depicts a small rowboat navigating a surreal waterway hemmed in by towering magenta rock formations, carrying a muscular bald man at the oars, a young woman armed with a pistol, and a golden monkey — all heading toward a mysterious structure beneath a skull-shaped hillside bathed in amber light. A pair of long-necked herons flank the scene, adding an eerie calm to the whole gorgeous, unsettling composition that Ivan Plascencia's warm-yet-otherworldly palette makes impossible to look away from.