The Goon #41

Dominating the vivid yellow cover of The Goon #41 is a grotesque, decaying figure — hollow-eyed, gap-toothed, and trailing stringy white hair — crowned by a battered top hat adorned with feathers, bones, and stitched green lettering spelling out the title. A tiny skeletal charm dangles from the brim, and the whole image radiates the kind of gleeful, swamp-rot menace that makes this series so distinctive. Eric Powell pencils, inks, and colors the cover himself, and with a story title like "The Bog Lurk that Lurked like a Thing! A Bad Thing!" this 2012 Dark Horse issue promises exactly the darkly comedic horror fans have come to love.