20th Century Boys: Ultimative Edition #8

The masked figure on this cover says everything — a hooded face almost entirely obscured by the series' unsettling "Friend" symbol, that hand-with-an-eye emblem rendered in deep crimson halftone, radiating an eerie, hypnotic menace. Naoki Urasawa's cover art for this 2020 Ultimative Edition of *20th Century Boys* Band 8 is spare and striking, letting that single haunting image carry all the tension the series is known for. A fine addition to this German collected edition from Panini Deutschland, gathering Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki's celebrated thriller in a format that does full justice to the work.