The Boys #32

Garth Ennis and Carlos Ezquerra's mature-readers series charges into "The Self-Preservation Society — Part Two" with a cover by Darick Robertson that crackles with barely-contained mayhem. A red-caped superheroine bears down from above, one fist blazing with glowing energy and a hammer raised overhead, while fiery projectiles streak across a smoke-filled sky — and yet the most unnerving presence on the cover might be the spiked-collar bulldog on the ground below, teeth bared and utterly unfazed. Robertson's 2009 artwork captures everything that makes The Boys so compelling: dangerous superpowers and darkly comic absurdity sharing the same frame.