Absolute Carnage: Scream #3

The penultimate chapter of this Absolute Carnage tie-in delivers a cover that's all visceral menace — Scream's red-and-yellow symbiote form looms front and center, her jagged white eyes and serrated maw framed by writhing tendrils and the eerie spiral patterns that haunt the background. Cullen Bunn's story gets a fittingly ferocious visual treatment from Gerardo Sandoval, whose cover artwork crackles with symbiote energy rendered in Erick Arciniega's deep crimsons and acidic golds. If you've been following Scream's role in the Absolute Carnage saga, issue #3 promises the kind of tension and dark symbiote mythology this series has been building toward.