Skullkickers #30

With its subtitle "Tavern Tales Through Time," this landmark thirtieth issue of Skullkickers celebrates the series in style, packing the cover with a sprawling crowd of muscular, wildly costumed variants of the leads — spanning fantasy warriors, a masked robotic figure, a suited noir type, a lion-maned bruiser, and a colorful cast of alternates that stretch across every genre imaginable. The sheer visual density of the image — bodies stacked and jostling for space against a clean graph-paper background — is a playful, confident statement about how far this series has come. Writer Zub and collaborators Cruz, Hindmarch, and Southerland clearly aren't running out of creative fuel at issue thirty.