Redneck #12

Donny Cates and artist Lisandro Estherren's southern-fried vampire series delivers a gut-punch of an image on issue #12, with Nick Pitarra's cover art depicting two battered, blood-spattered men locked in a furious face-off — one clutching a writhing mass of green snakes, the other restrained by heavy chains and roaring with unrestrained rage. The amber-scorched backdrop and raw, almost grotesque detail give the confrontation a pressure-cooker intensity that's hard to look away from. If this series has been on your radar, this cover alone makes a compelling case to dive in.