Solomon Grundy #1

Scott Kolins opens this seven-issue DC miniseries with a cover that makes an immediate impression: a massive, grey-skinned Solomon Grundy looms against a blood-red moon, his decayed face twisted in rage as he stands over a swamp-strewn foreground littered with a skull and a knife, with a distant city skyline silhouetted behind him. The tagline "Born on a Monday" sets the nursery-rhyme tone that gives this undead bruiser his eerie mythology. It's a confident, atmospheric opener that gives one of DC's most formidable monsters a showcase all his own.