Bear Pirate Viking Queen #3

Issue three of Image's Bear Pirate Viking Queen arrives with one of the more unsettling covers of 2024 — a loose, painterly composition by Jonathan Marks Barravecchia showing a snarling, bloodied face looming ghost-like above a lace doily, a gothic cathedral dissolving into the background, and below it all, a bear flanked by robed, skull-faced figures. Sean Lewis's wildly imaginative series keeps pushing its strange, violent mythology into genuinely eerie territory, and this cover alone signals that the story is headed somewhere darker and stranger than ever.