1602: Witch Hunter Angela #3

Part three of Marvel's Secret Wars tie-in arrives with one of 2015's most atmospheric covers, painted by Stephanie Hans, whose moody, candlelit style gives this Elizabethan horror story a genuinely painterly weight. The image is arresting: a pale, dark-haired woman in flowing green and black robes levitates above two figures — a helmeted warrior reaching upward toward her outstretched hand and a second, younger figure watching from the shadowy foreground — all set against a fractured, web-laced darkness that feels equal parts Renaissance and supernatural dread. With Bennett and Gillen's story subtitled "In Which Hearts Rend and Heads Roll," this chapter promises the kind of dramatic stakes that match Hans's hauntingly beautiful cover perfectly.