The Nameless #1

Image Comics launched this dark series in 1997 with a cover that immediately sets an unsettling tone — a powerfully built, masked figure drenched in dripping blood stares out from a haze of swirling purple energy, arms crossed with an air of cold menace. The cover art by Phillip Hester and Bruce McCorkindale delivers striking visual tension, balancing raw brutality with an almost ritualistic stillness. Writer Joe Pruett and his creative team signal from the very first issue that The Nameless isn't pulling any punches.