Jonah Hex #53

Billy Tucci's cover for issue #53 sets a moody, sepia-toned saloon scene: the scarred, steely-eyed Jonah Hex grips a rifle and holstered pistol while a elegantly dressed saloon girl in a striped corset and feathered headpiece leans close against him. The pairing feels at once dangerous and quietly intimate, perfectly suited to a story titled "You'll Never Dance Again." Writers Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti continue their celebrated run on DC's frontier bounty hunter, and if this cover is any indication, 2010 brought another compelling chapter to one of comics' most weathered antiheroes.