The Punisher #9

From the driver's seat of a vehicle, Frank Castle grips the wheel with cold, focused intensity — his skull emblem barely visible at the bottom of the frame — while the rearview mirror reflects a chaotic street scene of an explosion, a man holding a champagne glass, and a woman raising a pistol. Bryan Hitch and Paul Neary deliver a brilliantly cinematic composition that frames the Punisher as a man always watching, always calculating, even as violence erupts behind him. Greg Rucka, Mirko Colak, and Matt Hollingsworth bring their sharp, gritty sensibilities to this April 2012 installment of Marvel's street-level thriller.