The Silver Coin #5

Michael Walsh's cover for this fifth issue of The Silver Coin sets a deeply unsettling colonial-horror mood: a gaunt, Puritan-dressed figure in a tall black hat clutches a cross-marked case while looming behind him is a massive, shadowy beast with a bloodied claw, a hangman's noose dangling ominously to one side, and a procession of shambling figures emerging from the darkness. The story chapter is titled "Covenant," which pairs perfectly with the hellfire-preacher atmosphere Walsh conjures in every shadowy corner of this image. Image Comics' anthology horror series continues to deliver genuinely chilling visual storytelling in 2021, and this issue looks like one of its darkest entries yet.