Ascender #11

Dustin Nguyen's haunting watercolor cover for Ascender #11 sets an arresting tone: a young woman clutching a staff stands defiantly in front of a massive, battle-scarred mech with glowing red eyes, its hulking silhouette looming against a stormy, crimson-tinged sky. The contrast between the small, determined figure and the towering machine behind her gives the image a quietly powerful sense of scale and grit. Jeff Lemire and Nguyen's science-fantasy series continues to deliver this kind of atmospheric imagery that makes it hard to set the issue down before you've read every page.