The Walking Dead #79

Two survivors fight back-to-back in a snow-swept, tree-lined landscape as a massive horde of walkers closes in from every direction — it's a tense, beautifully bleak image that captures the series at its most relentless. Charlie Adlard's linework gives the shambling crowd a real sense of overwhelming scale, with falling snow adding an eerie calm to the chaos. Fresh off its 2010 Eisner Award for Best Continuing Series, this is Robert Kirkman's post-apocalyptic saga doing exactly what it does best.