Locke & Key: Clockworks #4

Gabriel Rodriguez's cover for Locke & Key: Clockworks #4 delivers one of the series' most unsettling visual conceits: a figure seen from above stares down at a mirror on the floor, where a menacing reflection — yellow-eyed and grinning — reaches upward clutching a small key, surrounded by the intricate gears of a clockwork mechanism. The tension between the passive observer above and the predatory double below says everything about the dread Joe Hill and Rodriguez have built into this "Whispering Iron" chapter of the Clockworks arc. A deeply compelling piece of cover art from 2012 that earns its place in this celebrated IDW run.