Jonah Hex #70

The "Weird Western" tagline earns its name on Ryan Sook's cover for this 2011 issue, where a young woman in a sun-drenched dress and wide straw hat kneels in cracked desert earth, her face split between beauty and something deeply unsettling — cradling what appears to be a human heart while more grim offerings rest in a basket beside her. In the dusty haze behind her, a lone rider on horseback watches, suggesting Jonah Hex himself is never far from the strange and the dangerous. Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti's long run on this series has always embraced the frontier's darker edges, and this haunting image promises another tale where the Old West veers into something far stranger.