Hellboy: The Wild Hunt #2

The second chapter of The Wild Hunt arrives with one of the more quietly unsettling covers in the series — Hellboy, red-skinned and trench-coated, stands small but resolute against the looming silhouette of an enormous crowned skull, its golden crown and hollow eyes dominating the darkness above him. Mike Mignola's cover art turns scale into dread, making the contrast between Hellboy's grounded stance and the towering, skeletal presence feel genuinely charged. With Duncan Fegredo on interior art, this 2009 Dark Horse series is firing on all cylinders.