Kill Shakespeare: The Tide of Blood #4

With its fourth issue, Kill Shakespeare: The Tide of Blood delivers another striking chapter in McCreery, Del Col, and Belanger's celebrated reinvention of the Bard's universe. The cover presents a tense, luminous scene — a pale, determined man cradling a red-haired woman who appears unconscious or gravely wounded, rendered in rich golds and warm ochres that give the image an almost fever-dream quality. BloodyDisgusting.com said it best on the cover itself: "You have never seen an adaptation of Shakespeare's works like this before" — and this 2013 IDW series continues to make that case compellingly.