Jonah Hex: Riders of the Worm and Such #4

The penultimate chapter of this 1995 DC/Vertigo miniseries brings the gritty world of Jonah Hex to vivid life, with Timothy Truman's cover depicting a scarred, bandana-wearing gunman leveling a revolver directly at the viewer while two menacing, wild-haired figures armed with pistols lurk in the foreground below him. Writer Joe R. Lansdale and artist Tim Truman, inked here by Sam Glanzman, brought their distinctive rough-edged sensibility to this Western horror tale, and the cover's unsettling cast of characters signals that "Autumns of Our Discontent" is anything but a quiet chapter. If you've been following this miniseries, this fourth issue looks like exactly the kind of tense, atmospheric showdown the story has been building toward.