The Walking Dead #121

Negan dominates the cover of this seventh chapter of "All Out War," planted wide-stance with his barbed-wire bat Lucille in hand and a group of menacing figures looming behind him — while a lone walker shambles in from the shadows at his back. Charlie Adlard's stark, tension-soaked artwork captures the Saviors' leader at his most imposing, framed against a palette of deep grays and smoldering reds that perfectly suits Robert Kirkman's sprawling war arc. At the midpoint of this twelve-chapter saga, the cover alone makes clear that 2014's most intense storyline in The Walking Dead is nowhere near finished.