Avengers Undercover #8

The bold "THREE MONTHS LATER" title treatment sets a tense, time-jump tone for this 2014 chapter of Avengers Undercover, and Francesco Mattina's cover delivers a striking gallery of villainous company — a hooded figure channeling glowing green energy, Mystique armed and ready, a fang-baring vampire-like figure, a close and menacing face-off between two characters, and a dark-costumed woman screaming in the foreground. It's a confident visual argument that the young heroes of this series have landed themselves deep in dangerous territory, surrounded by some genuinely unsettling company. Dennis Hopeless and Tigh Walker's "Going Native, Part Three" promises the undercover stakes are higher — and stranger — than ever.