Stray Bullets: Killers #1

David Lapham's Stray Bullets returns with this 2014 Image Comics launch of the Killers spin-off series. The cover puts a long-haired, colorfully dressed figure front and center — finger pressed to lips in a "shh" gesture — while chaos erupts behind him: tumbling bodies, splattered red, and a crashing car suggesting a world where things go very wrong very fast. It's a striking, hand-crafted opening statement from Lapham, who handles every aspect of the work himself, and "No Take-Backs" sounds like exactly the kind of title that fits this gritty, crime-drenched universe.