Loveless #22

Loveless #22 brings Brian Azzarello and Danijel Žeželj's gritty Vertigo Western to a fever pitch with this striking 2008 installment, "Deep Rivers." Marcelo Frusin's cover pulls no punches — two men in black-and-white prison stripes grapple violently on a rocky hillside, chains binding them together as one screams in anguish, while an early-model automobile sits parked in the background below. It's a raw, visceral image that captures the brutal, desperate energy this series consistently delivers.