North 40 #4

WildStorm's rural horror series delivers another unsettling chapter with North 40 #4, written by Aaron Williams with art and cover by Fiona Staples. The cover puts a massively built man in a tank top front and center, gripping an axe while a small black cat perches nearby — both dwarfed by the hulking, multi-eyed creature looming in the darkness behind them, its glowing orange eyes and writhing silhouette radiating genuine menace. If Blair Butler's blurb calling it "skin-crawling" has you curious, this December 2009 issue makes a strong visual case for that description.