The Walking Dead #11

This 2010 Cross Cult German-language edition of The Walking Dead — subtitled Jäger und Gejagte ("Hunters and Hunted") — presents a gripping cover by Charles Adlard showing a wide-eyed survivor raising a rifle in a darkened forest while, in the lower portion, shadowy figures struggle against encroaching walkers. Adlard's stark black-and-white linework, toned by Cliff Rathburn, gives the scene a tense, nocturnal atmosphere that perfectly captures the series' theme of desperate survival. A solid volume in Robert Kirkman's long-running saga, rendered here with the gritty expressiveness that defines the series' visual style.