Orc Stain #3

James Stokoe's wildly imaginative world gets wilder in Orc Stain #3, subtitled "Escape from Skrubtown." The cover says it all — a blue-skinned orc lunges desperately across rooftops as an entire wooden structure explodes into splinters and debris behind him, dust and destruction billowing in every direction. With Stokoe handling every aspect of the art himself, from pencils to inks to colors, this 2010 Image series continues to deliver a raw, hand-crafted energy that few books of its era could match.