Savage Dragon #251

Issue #251 of Erik Larsen's long-running Image series delivers a gut-punch of a cover — a battered, bloodied face filling the entire frame, one eye swollen shut and crimson streaking down the lips, with the subtitle "Crawling from the Wreckage" leaving little doubt that someone has been through hell. Larsen's cover pencils and inks are raw and unflinching, rendered with gritty crosshatching that makes the damage feel viscerally real. With interior colors by Nikos Koutsis and Mike Toris and lettering by Ferran Delgado, this 2020 chapter — subtitled "Family Reunion" inside — promises the kind of hard-hitting storytelling that has kept Savage Dragon going strong for over 250 issues.