Alias #11

This issue of Marvel's MAX series opens a new arc — "ReBeCCa, PLeaSe CoMe HoMe" — with a cover by David Mack that feels more like an art journal than a comic book. A painterly purple-toned portrait of a young woman dominates the page, surrounded by layered collage elements: scrawled handwriting, doodles referencing the Punisher, a small golden figure she cradles, and fragments of text reading "love me" and "you are afraid, and watching a real person." Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos's ongoing series has always excelled at mixing hard-edged noir with genuine emotional depth, and Mack's evocative mixed-media cover promises that this new chapter will be no different.