I, Vampire #17

The cover by Andrea Sorrentino delivers a genuinely unsettling image: a snarling, red-eyed vampire crouches atop a stone pillar over a bound and helpless John Constantine, whose desperate upward gaze makes the stakes feel very real. The tagline — "If Constantine falls… so does the world!" — frames this New 52 issue as a crossover moment where the occult detective's fate hangs by a thread. Writer Joshua Hale Fialkov and artist Fernando Blanco bring "Wave of Mutilation" to shelves in April 2013, promising the kind of supernatural tension this series does so well.