The Walking Dead #18

A menacing close-up of a powerfully built man dominates this Cross Cult German-language edition of The Walking Dead, his wide grin radiating a deeply unsettling confidence — while below him, a crowd of grasping, decayed walkers reaches upward into the frame. Charles Adlard's stark black-and-white linework, with Cliff Rathburn's grey tones, gives the image a raw, visceral tension that perfectly captures the series' relentless atmosphere. Subtitled Grenzen ("Boundaries"), this 2013 collection promises the kind of human-versus-human drama that makes Robert Kirkman's world far more dangerous than its undead population alone.