Angelus #5

Issue five of six in this Top Cow miniseries from Ron Marz and Stjepan Sejic finds the tension building toward its finale. Sejic's cover renders a towering, shadow-wreathed figure with piercing violet eyes, dark feathered wings spread wide, and razor-tipped fingers clutching a glowing, rune-inscribed artifact — the interplay of deep purple and stark white light gives the image a genuinely unsettling majesty. With Newsarama calling the series a reminder of "what comics should be like," this 2010 penultimate chapter promises the kind of visually arresting cosmic conflict that has defined the run.