All-New Ultimates #3

A blood-red cover sets an immediately unsettling tone for All-New Ultimates #3, as a masked, trench-coated figure stands front and center, gun in hand and white splatter across their chest — every inch a threat. David Nakayama's cover work is arresting in its stark simplicity, using a nearly monochromatic palette to let that lone, ominous silhouette do all the talking. With Michel Fiffe writing, Amilcar Pinna on art, and Nolan Woodard's colors bringing the interior to life, "Summer of Scourge" looks like essential reading for fans of street-level tension in the Ultimate Universe.