Basilisk #8

Chapter Eight of Cullen Bunn and Jonas Scharf's Basilisk arrives with one of 2022's most quietly unsettling covers: a bearded man bearing strange facial markings gazes upward, his blood-spattered glasses opaque with white reflection, hands pressed together in a prayer-like gesture while blood stains his fingers against a swirling crimson background. The title — "Even Gods Bleed" — hangs over the image with real weight, perfectly complementing Jonas Scharf's portrait of a figure caught somewhere between devotion and dread, colored with deep, moody reds by Alex Guimarães. If this series has been on your radar, this issue's haunting cover alone makes a compelling case to pick it up.