The Walking Dead #34

Two silhouetted figures loom on either side of a chain-link fence, while a long-haired woman stares through it with quiet intensity and a young child in a cowboy hat peers out from behind her — Adlard's stark, moody composition says everything about the fragile divide between safety and threat. The issue's title, "Safe… But at What Cost?", hangs over the image like a question that the cover's tense body language seems already half-prepared to answer. Kirkman, Adlard, and Rathburn were firing on all cylinders in 2007, and this issue looks like a compelling chapter in the series' ongoing exploration of survival and hard choices.