Friday the 13th #5

Jason Voorhees' battered hockey mask floats at the center of this unsettling cover for Friday the 13th #5 (WildStorm, 2007), enveloped by a writhing mass of serpents that coil and twist around it in every direction — an image that radiates dread without needing a single drop of blood beyond the mask's cracked, stained surface. Cover artist Ryan Sook delivers a painterly, atmospheric composition that feels more like a fever-dream artifact than a simple horror image. With Palmiotti and Gray on the script and Adam Archer on interior art, this penultimate chapter of the series carries serious creative firepower.