Hack/Slash #19

This striking Cover A for Hack/Slash #19 plays with duality in a quietly unsettling way — a young woman in a bikini top and shorts stands at the edge of still water against a vivid sunset sky, while her reflection reveals something far more monstrous: a snarling, pale creature clutching a blade. The silhouetted treeline and blood-red water give the image a summer-camp-horror atmosphere that feels both tranquil and deeply wrong. Published by Image in 2012 during the publisher's 20th anniversary, this issue delivers the kind of horror-tinged visual storytelling that has kept Hack/Slash a standout on the shelves.