Trailblazer #[nn]

Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray bring their signature Western sensibility to this 2011 Image one-shot, with a striking cover by Dave Johnson that layers Old West atmosphere with something stranger and more charged. A gun-toting cowboy in a red vest and duster stands at the center, flanked by a massive clock face bearing a ghostly red-haired woman, a wanted poster, a steer skull, a speeding stagecoach on the horizon, and a murder of crows cutting across a blazing sky. The collision of frontier iconography with that eerie, surreal clock image promises a Western with time — or something beyond it — at its heart.