Ascender #5

Dustin Nguyen's ethereal watercolor cover for Ascender #5 immediately commands attention: a lone, dark-robed figure stands small against a cracked, frost-pale landscape while an enormous ghostly tentacled creature swirls and coils through the sky above them. The scale contrast between the solitary figure and that luminous, otherworldly entity gives the image a haunting, almost mythic weight. Jeff Lemire and Nguyen's sci-fi/fantasy series continues to deliver atmosphere that feels genuinely unlike anything else on the shelf.