The Walking Dead #6

The cover of this 2004 Image Comics series entry says it all without a single word: a lone silhouetted figure grips a shovel beside a makeshift wooden cross while a crowd of shadowy figures looms in the fiery red background amid bare, skeletal trees. It's a striking, mournful image that captures the weight of survival in a world gone wrong. Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore were already delivering covers this evocative just six issues in.