Kill Shakespeare: The Tide of Blood #1

The mash-up of Shakespeare's greatest characters and pulpy adventure fiction continues with this opening chapter of The Tide of Blood, from the creative team of McCreery, Del Col, and Belanger. Cover A delivers an immediate visceral statement: a blood-soaked hand thrusts a dripping skull aloft against a stark white background — a grim riff on Hamlet's most famous moment rendered in vivid, raw brushwork. Bill Willingham (creator of Fables) offers a blurb of praise on the cover itself, a fitting endorsement for a series that has clearly earned its place among ambitious literary comics of 2013.