The Walking Dead #132

Titled "Happiness," this 2014 issue of The Walking Dead presents a quietly striking image: a woman holding a pacifier-sucking toddler close against her chest, her expression guarded and resolute against a warm amber sky, with a water tower and skeletal structures looming in the background. The juxtaposition of that tender, protective embrace with the world-worn wariness in her eyes captures everything Robert Kirkman's series does so well — finding fragile human moments within a landscape of constant danger. Charlie Adlard's cover linework, inked by Adlard himself with colors by Cliff Rathburn, gives the scene an understated emotional weight that makes the chapter title feel both hopeful and deeply complicated.