'68 #4

The Vietnam War's undead nightmare gets a visceral face — literally — on this Image Comics collection from the '68 universe, where Kidwell and Zornow's war-horror vision reaches a fever pitch. Nat Jones's cover delivers a gut-punch close-up of a rotting, hollow-eyed ghoul crowned with barbed wire, bullets, and crawling insects, its sickly orange eyes burning out of a decomposing face like hellfire through a cracked skull. It's the kind of cover art that earns a long, uneasy stare before you even crack the spine.