The New Deadwardians #2

The second chapter of Dan Abnett and I.N.J. Culbard's Edwardian undead mystery arrives with a cover that's hard to shake: a large crimson handprint — its palm filled with a city street map — looms over a cluster of snarling, hollow-eyed zombie faces rendered in deep red. It's a striking visual shorthand for a series where civilization and the walking dead are inextricably intertwined. Vertigo's 2012 miniseries continues to look like one of the more quietly unsettling genre blends of its year.