The Stand: Captain Trips #2

Three hazmat-suited figures dominate this unsettling cover by Lee Bermejo — the central one looms closest, its visor reflecting a frightened, unprotected man caught in whatever containment operation is underway, while two more suited figures flank it in the murky green background. The image perfectly captures the plague-haunted dread at the heart of Stephen King's source material, translated here into the first arc of Marvel's 2008 limited series adaptation. Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Mike Perkins, and Laura Martin bring King's apocalyptic world to comics, and this second chapter of "Captain Trips" promises the contagion is already well past the point of stopping.