The Walking Dead #148

Few covers in the "No Turning Back" arc carry as much quiet devastation as this one — a face pressed low into darkness, tears falling into the void below, rendered in Charlie Adlard's raw, scratchy linework with Cliff Rathburn's muted amber tones. The extreme close-up strips away any action-hero pretense, leaving only grief in its most unguarded form. It's a deeply human moment at the heart of the post-apocalypse, and it sets a somber tone that longtime readers of Robert Kirkman's series will feel immediately.