The Ride: Burning Desire #3

Few covers manage to be both unsettling and darkly compelling, but this third issue of The Ride: Burning Desire pulls it off with quiet menace. The cover, illustrated by Cully Hamner, presents a blood-spattered pink teddy bear clutching a skull-marked grenade around its neck — an innocence-meets-violence image that perfectly captures the series' noir sensibility. It's the kind of striking visual shorthand that makes you want to flip straight to the first page.