Silent Hill: Dead / Alive #3

Few covers from 2006 capture dread quite like this one from IDW's Silent Hill: Dead/Alive #3. Chris Bolton's painted cover depicts a grotesque game of pool played by hulking, scarred monsters leaning over the table with cues — and in the foreground, a severed, bloodied human eyeball sits among the billiard balls as if it's been racked right alongside them. It's the kind of unsettling, darkly surreal imagery that makes this series feel like a natural extension of the nightmare world Scott Ciencin and Nick Stakal are crafting inside.