Raise the Dead #2

Arthur Suydam's painted cover for this 2007 Dynamite series delivers an unsettling gut-punch of Americana gone wrong: a blood-soaked zombie cop and a ghoulish diner worker loom over a small red-haired child perched at a diner counter, the whole scene rendered in the warm, nostalgic palette of a Norman Rockwell painting turned nightmare. The checkerboard floor, Coca-Cola clock, and burger-joint chalkboard menus make the horror feel disturbingly mundane. It's a brilliantly composed image that captures exactly the kind of dread Raise the Dead was built around.