Avengers Undercover #3

Francesco Mattina's cover for Avengers Undercover #3 is a striking, unsettling close-up: a young woman's face fills the frame, her expression caught somewhere between a smirk and something darker, while a glowing blue crack spiderwebs outward from her forehead like a shattered screen. The pixelated "GAME OVER" text stamped across her face gives the whole image a chilling video-game-meets-reality edge — perfectly in tune with the series' sharp pop-culture satirical streak, as IGN's pull quote at the top attests. Dennis Hopeless, Timothy Green II, and Jean-François Beaulieu continue "Descent, Part Three," and if this cover is any indication, the stakes for these young heroes are only getting higher.