Barbarella: The Center Cannot Hold #4

Barbarella sits with cool, unreadable composure in what appears to be a massive mechanical throne — her crimson bodysuit gleaming, sci-fi goggles pushed up on her brow, surrounded by dark industrial machinery that suggests captivity or command in equal measure. Derrick Chew's cover art gives the galaxy's most resourceful space traveler an almost eerie stillness, hinting that whatever awaits in "Part Four: Into the Unnameable," Barbarella is anything but rattled. Writer Sarah Hoyt and artist Riccardo Bogani bring this arc to its penultimate chapter with a tension that feels genuinely earned.