Sheltered #6

Two blood-soaked spears topped with skulls rise from a snow-blanketed landscape, while a crimson river streams toward the foreground where a lone crow stands watch — it's a striking, unsettling image that captures the brutal heart of this "pre-apocalyptic tale." In the distant background, smoke billows from what appears to be a burning structure among the trees, deepening the sense that something has gone terribly, irreversibly wrong in this survivalist community. Johnnie Christmas's cover linework is raw and assured, and Shari Chankhamma's cold color palette makes that river of red all the more visceral against the winter white.