Ghost Rider: Trail of Tears #4

The penultimate stretch of Garth Ennis and Clayton Crain's six-part limited series arrives with a cover that commands attention: Ghost Rider, his flaming skull head bowed, is bound and engulfed by heavy chains and hellfire, with charred skulls, bones, and smoldering debris swirling through the air around him. Crain's painted artwork gives the scene a raw, painterly intensity — the reds and oranges of the supernatural fire cutting sharply against the ashen grays of the chains and wreckage. Four issues in, Trail of Tears continues to prove itself one of the more atmospherically ambitious Ghost Rider stories of 2007.