Nailbiter #8

Image Comics' unsettling serial-killer mystery reaches its eighth chapter, and Mike Henderson's cover announces it with genuinely creepy confidence — a figure in grey wrappings stands with a gloved fist raised, their head entirely engulfed by a writhing, blood-speckled swarm of yellow jackets that obscures any face beneath. The insects spill outward in every direction, lending the image a crawling, claustrophobic dread that fits Williamson and Henderson's small-town horror series perfectly. If you've been following Nailbiter since the beginning, this 2014 installment looks like exactly the kind of deeply unsettling turn you signed up for.