Redneck #9

Donny Cates and Lisandro Estherren's rural vampire saga takes a deeply unsettling turn with this 2018 Skybound/Image installment, and Nick Pitarra's cover makes the danger viscerally clear. Viewed from above as if through a trapdoor, an elderly, white-haired figure sits bound to a chair in a blood-soaked butcher room, surrounded by hanging carcasses, buckets of entrails, skulls, and at least two other figures lurking at the edges of this grim tableau. It's a striking, carefully composed image — gory and atmospheric in equal measure — that signals Redneck is firmly in its darkest territory yet.