Sheltered #8

Sheltered: A Pre-Apocalyptic Tale #8 from Image puts the tension front and center with a snow-blanketed standoff in the winter woods. A young person crouches low in the foreground, gripping a rifle and wearing a look of fierce determination, while an armed figure looms above on a rocky rise — and a third silhouette lurks among the trees in the distance. Johnnie Christmas's linework and Shari Chankhamma's cool, wintry palette make this 2014 issue feel genuinely urgent, a reminder of just how gripping this survival drama had become by its eighth chapter.