Unknown Soldier #10

The bandage-wrapped Unknown Soldier dominates this stark, unsettling cover by Dave Johnson, machete raised overhead against a yellow-green field while shadowed figures mirror his deadly posture behind him — a composition that's spare, graphic, and genuinely hard to look away from. Vertigo's mature-readers war series by Joshua Dysart and Alberto Ponticelli was already earning praise like Comics Buyer's Guide's "Tremendous" by this September 2009 installment, the third chapter of the "Easy Kill" arc. It's a confident, haunting package from a title that consistently delivered more moral complexity than its pulpy premise might suggest.