Sheltered #10

Sheltered: A Pre-Apocalyptic Tale has been one of Image's most quietly harrowing survivalist series, and issue #10 drives that tension home with a cover that stops you cold. A bloodied young woman kneels in the snow at the center of a winter forest, her expression hollow and shell-shocked, surrounded by the fallen bodies of several other young people scattered across the white ground. Johnnie Christmas's linework and Shari Chankhamma's cool, stark coloring make the crimson stains against the snow feel genuinely unsettling — a powerful image that captures the series' unflinching look at how far fear of the future can push people.