Outcast by Kirkman & Azaceta #21

Robert Kirkman and Paul Azaceta's supernatural horror series reaches a visceral high point with issue #21, subtitled "Blood Is Spilled." The cover — rendered in a scorching palette of burnt orange and gold — fills the frame with a bespectacled man in clear distress, his face contorted in anguish as grasping hands close in around him, a blade menacingly near. It's a tightly composed, unsettling image that captures the raw, suffocating dread that has made Outcast one of Image's most gripping ongoing series of 2016.