The Walking Dead #69

The U.S. Capitol building looms under a blood-red sky on Charlie Adlard's haunting cover for this 2010 Image Comics entry — its steps and surrounding streets littered with fallen bodies and scattered papers, one bearing the words "The Dead Walk." It's a quietly devastating image that reframes one of America's most recognizable landmarks as a monument to collapse, perfectly capturing the series' knack for finding horror in the familiar. Robert Kirkman, Adlard, and Cliff Rathburn are firing on all cylinders here.