Punisher: War Zone #3

The third chapter of Greg Rucka's five-part Punisher: War Zone limited series arrives with a cover by Marco Checchetto that is genuinely hard to look away from — a battered, bloodied Frank Castle gritting his teeth through searing bolts of lightning, debris exploding around him as he refuses to go down. It's a portrait of sheer, brutal endurance, rendered in a cool blue palette that makes the red of Castle's wounds all the more striking. With Carmine Di Giandomenico on interior art and Matt Hollingsworth on colors, this 2013 series is firing on all cylinders at its midpoint.