The Walking Dead #188

The cover of The Walking Dead #188 frames a tense standoff in a hauntingly overgrown, crumbling cityscape — a lone figure stands defiantly in the distance while a group of survivors in the foreground fan out cautiously to face them. Charlie Adlard's linework captures both the sprawling decay of a world reclaimed by nature and the charged, breath-holding tension of two sides on the verge of confrontation. With Robert Kirkman's "Falling Into Place" as the story title, this 2019 Skybound/Image issue promises that the pieces of an escalating conflict are aligning in ways that won't be easily undone.