Punisher #37

Garth Ennis and Leandro Fernández kick off "Man of Stone" with this brooding Marvel MAX entry, and Timothy Bradstreet's painted cover sets the tone perfectly — a scarred, bald man in a military coat adorned with Soviet medals sits in quiet menace behind a desk, a pistol resting at his fingertips and documents spread before him. The cold, photorealistic rendering makes this antagonist feel genuinely unsettling, all weathered authority and barely contained threat. It's the kind of cover that promises Ennis at his most grim and deliberate, and fans of the MAX run won't want to miss where this arc begins.