Punisher: War Zone #4

Part four of "The Resurrection of Ma Gnucci" arrives under a cover that says everything with brutal economy — Steve Dillon's close-up of Frank Castle's iconic skull emblem, rendered in stark bone-white and dripping with vivid red blood, is an image that commands attention without a word of explanation. Garth Ennis and Dillon, the creative partnership that defined a generation of Punisher storytelling, are back together here for this six-part Marvel Knights series. Four issues in, the tension is clearly running high — and that blood-soaked skull makes it hard to imagine things getting any cleaner before the finale.