Elephantmen #78

Subtitled "Graveyard Shift," this 2017 Image Comics entry in Richard Starkings' long-running series delivers a striking bird's-eye-view cover: a sleek convertible speeds down a road flanked by rows of shrouded, bloodied bodies, while a human figure brandishes a gun in a desperate struggle against a massive hippo-hybrid in the open top. The aerial perspective and grim surroundings give the whole image a tense, noir-soaked atmosphere that Medellin's linework renders with real visceral clarity. Elephantmen continues to blend science fiction and pulp crime in ways that feel genuinely distinctive on the 2017 comics shelf.