The Walking Dead #147

Subtitled "Out in the Open," this 2015 chapter from Kirkman, Adlard, Gaudiano, and Rathburn sets its mood immediately — three figures stand together in a wide, windswept field as dead leaves scatter under a brooding, storm-darkened sky, a distant settlement barely visible on the horizon. The lone figure in the wide-brimmed hat and long coat carries a rifle, flanked by a long-haired companion and a younger man, their small grouping feeling both exposed and quietly determined against that vast open landscape. Adlard's cover art captures the series' signature sense of uneasy vulnerability — out here in the open, there's nowhere to hide.