Avengers Arena #4

Styled like a vintage fight poster, Dave Johnson's cover for Avengers Arena #4 pits two formidable Marvel combatants face-to-face: X-23, claws fully extended, squares off against the armored Dark Hawk in what the cover boldly bills as "the island brawl to end them all." Murder World's brutal survival-of-the-fittest premise feels perfectly captured in this stark black-and-white-on-red design, and with Dennis Hopeless writing and Alessandro Vitti on interiors, "The Survivor" promises to deliver on every bit of that tension.