The Walking Dead #180

The concluding chapter of "New World Order" arrives with a cover that speaks volumes without showing a single face — a lone figure in a brown jacket stands with his back to us, facing down a row of heavily armed soldiers in white riot armor, a steepled building looming in the background. The tension radiating from that single unarmed silhouette confronting a wall of guns is exactly the kind of quiet-before-the-storm composition that makes Charlie Adlard's work on this series so compelling. Six issues in the making, this finale from Kirkman, Adlard, Gaudiano, and Rathburn promises the kind of high-stakes standoff that reshapes the world Rick Grimes has been fighting to build.