Vampirella: Dead Flowers #3

Lucio Parrillo's painted cover for this third chapter of Vampirella: Dead Flowers is genuinely unsettling in the best way — a gaunt, wide-eyed vampire looms over Vampirella from behind, his clawed hands gripping her bare shoulders as she turns away, the creature's bat-winged, monstrous visage filling the upper half of the image with palpable menace. The tension between predator and prey is rendered with an almost painterly intensity that pulls you in immediately. Sara Frazetta, Bob Freeman, and Alberto Locatelli's 2023 Dynamite series continues to look like a treat for fans of atmospheric, horror-drenched storytelling.