Ragman: Cry of the Dead #5

The penultimate chapter of DC's six-issue miniseries arrives with a cover by Joe Kubert that is genuinely hard to look away from — a dense, swirling crowd of faces ranging from clowns and wide-eyed innocents to leering demons, all radiating outward from a stark white void at the center like souls caught in some terrible eruption. It's a masterclass in controlled chaos, with Kubert packing extraordinary personality into every face across the composition. Writer Elaine Lee and artist Gabriel Morrissette's dark, folklore-steeped series reaches its penultimate beat here, and this cover sets an appropriately unsettling tone for "Kanzo! Baptism of Fire.