Elephantmen #23

The "Dangerous Liaisons" arc reaches its eighth and final chapter with this wild Image Comics cover, where a massive, armored rhinoceros-hybrid looms over a chaotic pile of animal-human soldiers — including a zebra-headed figure brandishing a pistol, a snake-headed combatant, and a pig-headed figure — all tangled together in a tense, densely packed struggle. It's a fittingly kinetic send-off to the arc, cramming the full menagerie of Elephantmen's genetically engineered warriors into one gloriously cluttered scene. At 32 ad-free pages, this December 2009 issue delivers the kind of pure reading experience that made Image's sci-fi action titles stand out.