The Walking Dead #62

A battered, wary woman dominates the foreground of this 2009 Image Comics cover, her expression tight with alertness as a mysterious silhouetted figure lurks among the darkened trees behind her — setting a quietly terrifying tone for "Fear the Hunters," a five-part arc that begins here. Charlie Adlard's linework captures the oppressive atmosphere of a world where the living may be just as dangerous as the dead. Robert Kirkman, Adlard, and Cliff Rathburn make this opening chapter feel like a breath held before something goes very wrong.