Hoax Hunters #5

Image's Hoax Hunters keeps delivering the creepy goods with issue #5, and this cover sets the mood perfectly: a young red-haired woman moves cautiously through a dark, skeletal forest, completely unaware of the snarling, clawed creature lurking in the twisted branches directly above her. The tension between her unsuspecting posture and that yellow-eyed monster overhead makes this one of the more genuinely unsettling covers of 2012. Moreci, Seeley, and Laiso are crafting a series that treats cryptid mythology with real energy and style.