Punisher: War Zone #5

Penultimate chapters don't get much more unsettling than this — Steve Dillon's cover for issue five of six puts a grotesque, snarling figure front and center, engulfed in a swirling inferno of flame, while a red-armored figure grapples in the chaos behind them. Part of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's six-issue Marvel Knights series, "The Resurrection of Ma Gnucci Part Five" promises the kind of darkly charged storytelling this creative team does so well. With only one chapter left, the cover's hellish imagery suggests the tension is very much reaching a boiling point.