Thief of Thieves #13

A battered, bloodied man stares straight at you from across a table strewn with pistols, submachine guns, knives, and loose ammunition — while a shadowy figure looms behind him, hand gripping his shoulder. Shawn Martinbrough's cover for this 2013 Image series captures the grim, tightly-wound tension that defines Thief of Thieves, a crime book from Robert Kirkman and James Asmus where the tagline says it all: "There is nothing he can't steal, nothing he can't have… except for the life he left behind." If you're following this grounded heist thriller, issue #13 looks like exactly the kind of corner its protagonist can't easily steal his way out of.