Marvel Zombies: Dead Days #1

Arthur Suydam's painted cover for this 2007 one-shot sets the tone perfectly: a zombified Wolverine snarls in the foreground, his mask-framed skull-face dripping with gore, while a decayed figure in dark costume hoists a severed, optic-blast-firing head above him, and a blue-skinned zombie surfer looms ominously in the background. Robert Kirkman and Sean Phillips deliver what promises to be a visceral, darkly entertaining look at the early days of Marvel's undead apocalypse. If you've ever wondered how Earth's mightiest heroes fell to the plague, this is the issue that sets the stage.