Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #3

Amanda Conner's cover for this third chapter of the four-part Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre miniseries is a dizzying, psychedelic whirlpool of color — Silk Spectre tumbles through a swirling tide of vivid shapes, oversized grinning faces, butterflies, and skulls that evoke the full sensory overload of 1960s counterculture. The composition perfectly captures a character caught between worlds, surrounded by forces both playful and unsettling. With Darwyn Cooke and Conner sharing writing duties and Conner handling the art throughout, this November 2012 issue titled "No Illusion" promises a visually rich and emotionally complex penultimate chapter.