Dungeons & Dragons #3

A lone human warrior, mouth open in a desperate battle cry, is completely surrounded and seized by a pack of snarling gnolls — their clawed hands clutching at him from every direction — on Tyler Walpole's viscerally intense cover for this third chapter of IDW's "Shadowplague" arc. The composition pulls you right into the chaos, making it immediately clear that John Rogers and Andrea Di Vito's series isn't pulling any punches when it comes to putting its heroes in genuinely dire straits. If "A Series of Very Bad Plans" is the subtitle, this cover suggests the plans have already gone spectacularly wrong.