Avengers Arena #11

Part four of "Game On" arrives with one of the most quietly striking covers of 2013 — a young fighter clutching a large, living raptor-like creature in what reads unmistakably as an embrace, set against a fiery orange sky tangled with twisting red vegetation and distant palm trees. The human figure wears a tech helmet pushed aside to reveal their face, lending the image an unexpected vulnerability amid Murder World's dangers. Dennis Hopeless and Riccardo Burchielli continue the series, while Mike Del Mundo's cover art does something rare: it makes you feel the weight of survival before you've even opened the book.