Jennifer Blood #20

Standing beside a bullet-riddled "Dead End" sign, Jennifer Blood wields a curved blade in each hand with a rifle slung at her hip — blood arcing through the air behind her as she fights with fierce, open-mouthed intensity. Mike Mayhew's cover crackles with kinetic energy, framing this 2012 Dynamite issue as a turning point where the title character is clearly in the thick of something brutal and unrelenting. Al Ewing's "Storm's A-Comin'" promises exactly the kind of gritty, mature-readers action that has made this series a compelling ride.