The Walking Dead #114

The Walking Dead #114 arrives at a fever pitch, with Charlie Adlard's cover depicting a brutal, chaotic brawl involving multiple figures — a long-haired man at the center, a bespectacled survivor to his left, and bloodied combatants colliding violently around them, with a barbed-wire-wrapped weapon prominent in the foreground. The raw, visceral energy of that cover image signals that Robert Kirkman's ongoing saga is deep in one of its most intense stretches as of 2013. It's a striking snapshot of survival under pressure, rendered with Adlard's signature gritty line work and Cliff Rathburn's muted, tension-amplifying palette.