Haunt #3

The symbiote-suited Haunt looms over a grotesque, tentacled creature in a brutally visceral face-off, blood spatter and writhing appendages filling every corner of Todd McFarlane's cover for this 2009 Image series. It's a striking collaboration — McFarlane on covers, with Robert Kirkman, Ryan Ottley, and Greg Capullo driving the interiors — that signals Haunt is firmly staking its place in mature, horror-tinged superhero territory. If intense creature confrontations and a darkly energetic visual style are your thing, issue #3 delivers that promise right from the cover.