Nailbiter #23

Image Comics' unsettling small-town horror series reaches "Bound by Blood, Chapter 3" with a cover that's hard to look away from — a sharp-eyed woman with vivid pink hair holds up a blood-spattered smiling mask, her expression cool and deliberate against a backdrop dripping red. The tension between her composed demeanor and the gruesome object in her hands captures exactly what makes Nailbiter such a compelling read in 2016. With Williamson, Henderson, Guzowski, Hill, and Levin on the creative team, this issue promises another deeply unnerving chapter in one of Image's most distinctly macabre ongoing series.