Jonah Hex #28

The cover of Jonah Hex #28 makes an immediate impression: Hex looms in extreme close-up beneath his weathered hat, his scarred jaw set in a grim half-grin, while a blood-streaked bowie knife fills the foreground — its blade acting as a dark mirror reflecting a ghoulish, leering face back at the viewer. John Higgins brings a painterly, almost horror-tinged quality to the image, perfectly suited to a story titled "Townkiller." Writers Palmiotti and Gray were consistently delivering some of DC's grittiest Western storytelling in 2008, and this brooding cover promises more of the same.