Punisher: Frank Castle Max #72

Frank Castle emerges from the dense, luminous green vegetation of the bayou — battered, bloodied, and still holding his rifle — in this striking cover by Dave Johnson for the second chapter of "Welcome to the Bayou." The ragged silhouette of torn swamp grass frames Castle like a wound in the wilderness, blood spattering both his face and the skull emblem on his chest, signaling he's already deep in punishment. Writer Victor Gischler and artist Goran Parlov bring their MAX-series grit to one of comics' most uncompromising corners of the Marvel universe.