Ghost #16

Dark Horse's Ghost #16 brings an unsettling intensity to this 1996 installment, with cover pencils by Dougie Braithwaite and inks by Cam Smith depicting a visceral, otherworldly scene that lives up to the title "Hell And Back." A silver-haired woman in a purple bodysuit advances with a glowing pistol raised, while a dark-haired figure — splattered with strange, corrosive matter and ensnared by grotesque tendrils — kneels in the foreground against a hellish, fleshy landscape. The contrast between the cool, determined shooter and the agonized captive, surrounded by writhing organic horrors, makes this a cover that's genuinely hard to look away from.