Stillwater #18

Ramón K. Pérez's cover for Stillwater #18 is a striking piece of macabre artistry — a bearded skeletal figure clutches a still-beating heart at its exposed chest, while vivid red veins or roots sprawl outward against a stark black background, with a ghostly building looming in the red-tinted distance above. The stark black-and-white rendering set against that creeping crimson gives the image an unsettling, visceral energy that perfectly suits this series about the strange cost of immortality. Chip Zdarsky, Pérez, and colorist Mike Spicer continue to deliver one of Image's most visually distinctive horror series with this 2023 installment, "Chapter Eighteen: The Unknown of It All.