Rat God #4

The penultimate chapter of Richard Corben's five-part Dark Horse series delivers a cover that's hard to look away from: a gaunt, wild-eyed figure with arms outstretched and a heavy gold chain hanging from his neck stands before a luminous yellow circle, dominated by a massive skeletal rat skull looming behind him — while a crowd of pallid, blank-eyed undead figures surges up from below. Corben's artwork, rendered entirely by his own hand in pencils, inks, and colors alongside colorist Beth Corben Reed, has a visceral, pulpy weight that feels both ancient and deeply unsettling. With the series heading into its final stretch, this issue promises the kind of folk-horror atmosphere that makes Rat God one of 2015's more distinctive horror offerings.