Tarzan #11

Dark Horse's adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' jungle lord takes a thrilling turn with issue #11, opening the "Le Monstre" arc on a tense, shadowy note. Bernie Wrightson's cover — pencils and inks both — sets an atmospheric scene aboard what appears to be a ship's gangway, where a bare-chested, combat-ready Tarzan faces off against a cloaked figure whose outstretched arm and skull-adorned hand suggest something decidedly sinister. It's a moody, beautifully rendered confrontation that makes part one of this story genuinely hard to put down unread.