The Punisher #19

Part of Marvel's 2015 "Secret Wars" event, this issue opens the "Final Punishment" arc with a cover that says everything without showing a face — the Punisher stands amid hundreds of spent brass casings scattered across a floor bearing his skull emblem, rifle in hand and blood on his glove, the title reading "Last Days of Punisher" above him. Mitch Gerads' cover design is quietly devastating, letting the sheer volume of empty shells tell the story of what just happened. Nathan Edmondson and Gerads bring Frank Castle's run to what promises to be a grim, high-stakes conclusion.