The Punisher #2

The cover of this 2016 Marvel series sets a quietly ominous tone: a roadside diner sign bearing the Punisher's bullet-riddled skull looms against a night sky, its arrow pointing down toward a warmly lit but clearly shot-up diner below, with a cracked vehicle window visible in the foreground. Declan Shalvey's cover art captures that eerie small-town atmosphere perfectly — the mundane and the violent colliding in one still, unsettling image. With Becky Cloonan writing and Steve Dillon on interior art, this run was already turning heads in 2016, and this second issue promises more of that gritty, grounded Punisher storytelling.