Jonah Hex #41

The cover of this 2009 DC Western sets a grim, tense tone: a blood-spattered man in a stained apron — very much the "Sawbones" of the story title — looms over a shirtless, wounded figure collapsed on his hands and knees in a pool of blood, scalpel in hand and menace in his posture. David Michael Beck's painted cover work gives the scene a rough, sun-bleached atmosphere that suits the brutality of Jonah Hex's frontier world perfectly. Written by Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti, this issue continues "Sawbones the Second Half" — and if the cover is any indication, things are about to get considerably worse before they get better.