The Walking Dead #110

Two gloved hands clash in a tense standoff on Charlie Adlard's cover for this 2013 Image series entry — one gripping a katana, the other clutching a metal rod, the blades crossing in a moment of raw, barely contained conflict. It's a tight, focused composition that strips the apocalypse down to its most immediate tension: two people, two weapons, one confrontation. Robert Kirkman, Adlard, and Cliff Rathburn continue delivering the post-outbreak world at its most gripping with issue #110.