Red Sonja: Unchained #4

The She-Devil with a Sword wades through dark, eerie waters on Mel Rubi's cover for this 2013 Dynamite series finale, her blade raised and her gaze steely as skeletal, undead figures lurk within the gnarled roots of a massive twisted tree looming behind her. It's a striking image — Sonja isolated, knee-deep and surrounded, yet utterly unintimidated — that captures the tone of a sword-and-sorcery tale with genuine menace. Peter V. Brett's run on Red Sonja: Unchained wraps up here, with Jack Jadson on interior art, making this a satisfying close to a four-issue story steeped in dark fantasy atmosphere.