Preacher #19

Kicking off "Crusaders Part One of Six," this November 1996 Vertigo issue places a cigarette-smoking man in clerical black and a blonde woman in a red top back-to-back at the center of Glenn Fabry's cover, both gripping pistols while a ring of white-robed, armed figures closes in around them from every direction. The tension radiating from that encirclement — two people outnumbered and outgunned yet utterly composed — makes for one of the most compelling covers in Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's celebrated run. If you've been following Preacher, this opener to a new six-part arc promises exactly the kind of dangerous, high-stakes atmosphere the series does so well.