American Jesus: The New Messiah #2

The painted cover by Jodie Muir sets an arresting tone, depicting a young girl at the center of a swirling struggle between two great-winged angels — one reaching protectively toward her — while dark, horned figures claw upward from below amid hellish orange flames, with a bearded man and others caught in the chaos around her. Mark Millar and Peter Gross's American Jesus: The New Messiah continues to probe what it means to carry a divine burden in a very human world, and this second issue looks to push that tension to its limits. If the cover is any indication, the battle over this child's soul — or perhaps her destiny — is only intensifying.