Venom: Sinner Takes All #4

The penultimate issue of this 1995 limited series puts Venom in a menacing crouch at center stage, symbiote tendrils splayed wide and that signature gaping maw on full display, while a frightened young woman scrambles beneath him and a cloaked, red-eyed gunman looms ominously overhead. Steve Lightle's cover work captures a tense three-way dynamic that makes the stakes of "...So Shall Ye Reap!" feel genuinely charged. With Larry Hama scripting and Greg Luzniak on interior art, this issue delivers the kind of dark, pulpy energy that made Venom's mid-'90s solo runs so compelling.