Betrayal of the Planet of the Apes #2

Gabriel Hardman's cover for this second chapter of BOOM! Studios' four-issue miniseries is genuinely arresting — a massive, bullet-cracked skull dominates the foreground while a solitary armored figure moves through a fiery, torch-lit cavern in the background, the contrast between bone-pale death and ember-warm light giving the whole image an ominous, conspiratorial weight. Written by Corinna Bechko and Hardman, this 2011 series digs into the political shadows of the ape world, and covers like this make it clear the stakes are anything but safe.