Artifacts #12

The penultimate chapter of Ron Marz and Jeremy Haun's 13-part Top Cow epic arrives with a striking Greg Horn cover that says everything about the stakes: a fierce, supernaturally marked woman — her skin shadowed in violet, dark thorned armor spreading across her arms — cradles a small child with quiet, protective intensity. The contrast between her otherworldly power and the infant's pure vulnerability gives this cover an emotional weight that pulls you in immediately. With Sunny Gho and Michael Broussard also on the creative team, Artifacts #12 builds toward what promises to be a shattering conclusion.