Google Books has added the black-and-white supermarket checkout aisle mascot to its growing collection of preserved magazines and books. And in its honor, we collected some of the best recent covers. Who knew Bat Boy was such a war hero?

Daybreakers, which comes out in theaters January 8th, is set in the future, when almost all humans have turned vampire. But with the increase in the vampire population comes the decrease in their food supply — in other words, the vampires are running out of humans. The shortage of human blood has lead to heavy dilution in the vampire blood banks, and a slow and painful vampire evolution into the fanged ugly you see above. Now it's up to vampire scientist Ethan Hawke to buck the system and find a peace between vampires and the living.

Plus if you want a good scare check out Daybreakers latest evolution trailer. Warning, it's a little loud, but still pretty creative.

Here're 100 of our favorite comic covers from the last decade. We tried to hide our biases slightly by only allowing one pick per series (Otherwise, you'd get a Fables and 100 Bullets gallery, most likely), and limited our choices to books that fall squarely into io9's wheelhouse (Thereby missing such great covers as Ryan Kelly and Brian Wood's Local, many things from DC's Minx line or Jock's Losers covers), but if you're still not getting a visual feast from everything below, we advise you to go and see a specialist immediately.

(Covers are in something approaching alphabetical order, and not in order of how much we love them, before anyone wonders.)

Covers 1 - 10:

Covers 11-20:

Covers 21-30:

Covers 31-40:

Covers 41-50:

Covers 51-60:

Covers 61-70:

Covers 71-80:

Covers 81-90:

Covers 91-100:

We're sure we've missed some obvious choices; tell us what we should've picked in the comments below.

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