Haunt #21

Haunt #21 from Image's 20th anniversary year presents one of the more visually arresting covers of 2012 — the title character's massive blue-tinted skull-like visage looms over an overwhelming swarm of red-armored mechanical soldiers, their sheer numbers filling every inch of the foreground. Nathan Fox's cover art captures a real sense of siege-scale menace, with that eerie white-eyed mask staring out from above the mechanical horde like something inevitable. With Joe Casey writing and Fox handling both pencils and inks inside, this one carries the kind of creative confidence that makes "The Glorious Orgy" a story title you simply have to read for yourself.