Attack on Titan #14

Hajime Isayama takes a rare, quieter approach to the cover of this 2014 volume, setting three Survey Corps members in a warmly lit bar — a grinning, glasses-wearing figure leans across the counter while a tall, sharp-eyed man stands to the left and a shorter, arms-crossed soldier perches on a barstool amid shelves lined with bottles. The contrast between this relaxed, almost convivial scene and the series' brutal world gives the cover a genuinely intriguing tension. With the story chapter titled "Episode 55: Pain," volume 14 signals that whatever calm this moment suggests, the weight of the series is never far away.