The Walking Dead #107

From the ground's perspective, a battered cowboy hat rests in the rubble while a group of imposing figures — armed and watchful — loom in the middle distance beside a heavy military truck. Charlie Adlard's cover composition puts you right in the dirt, staring up at people who clearly hold all the power in this moment. Robert Kirkman and Adlard's post-apocalyptic saga was firing on all cylinders in 2013, and this unsettling image promises the kind of tense, high-stakes storytelling that kept readers coming back issue after issue.