Ghost Rider #6

Clayton Crain's painted cover for this 2006 Marvel Knights finale delivers a striking vision of Ghost Rider — flaming skull blazing atop a leather-clad skeleton — astride a hellfire-wreathed motorcycle rising from a landscape of skulls and debris beneath a smoldering, ash-choked sky. It's a fittingly ominous image to close out Garth Ennis's "The Road to Damnation," and Crain's photorealistic painted art gives the Spirit of Vengeance a brooding, almost cinematic weight. If you've been following this six-issue run, this concluding chapter promises a visual payoff as dark and atmospheric as anything in the series.