Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan #4

The concluding chapter of J. Michael Straczynski and Adam Hughes' four-part Before Watchmen miniseries arrives with a striking Adam Hughes cover: a determined young woman in a sheer gold garment stands front and center, pistol in hand, while a dark, cloaked figure looms behind her against an Egyptian-temple backdrop, blue spheres drifting through the air around them. It's a composition full of quiet tension — two very different figures, power and vulnerability intertwined — that makes this a fitting visual send-off for one of the Watchmen universe's most thoughtful explorations.