The Victories #6

Michael Avon Oeming's The Victories delivers its darkly surreal sensibility straight to the plate with this unsettling cover — a figure's back becomes a grotesque spread of junk food, a skull, and decaying excess, framed by fork and knife held in waiting hands. It's a visceral meditation on consumption and corruption that perfectly suits a series Bloody Disgusting calls "a refreshing take on why someone would become a superhero." Dark Horse's 2013 series continues to push superhero storytelling into genuinely uncomfortable territory.