North 40 #5

The penultimate chapter of WildStorm's Southern-gothic horror series arrives with a cover by Fiona Staples that's genuinely hard to look away from — a young woman stands warily beneath a moonlit, blood-red sky, an owl with unnervingly glowing green eyes perched on her shoulder, a darkened and ominous house looming behind them both. The blurb on the cover nails the series' appeal perfectly: somewhere between Stephen King's The Stand, Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, and the surreal unease of David Lynch. With Aaron Williams' script and Staples handling linework and color throughout, North 40 #5 delivers that same atmospheric dread right through to its striking cover image.