Roachmill #4

Roachmill #4 from Dark Horse Comics delivers a cover that earns its own self-aware speech bubble — a trio of battle-worn figures (a muscular man, a woman with a pistol, and a cartoonish rabbit-like creature armed and ready) stand atop a sprawling heap of defeated enemies, with bats circling a pink sky and scattered wreckage all around them. Rich Hedden's pencils and Tom McWeeney's inks give the scene a gleefully chaotic energy that blends gritty action with offbeat humor, right down to the character cheerfully admitting, "Whew, what a mess! & this's only the cover!" If this 1988 series has been on your radar, issue four makes a pretty compelling case for diving in.