Jonah Hex #30

Jordi Bernet's cover for issue #30 pulls no punches — a battered Jonah Hex lies pinned beneath a fearsome, masked attacker who raises a glinting blade, making the story title "Luck Runs Out" feel painfully apt. Writers Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti built this series on hard-edged Western storytelling, and this 2008 installment looks to deliver another brutal chapter in the bounty hunter's dust-and-blood saga. If you like your Westerns without sentimentality, Hex rarely disappoints.