Black Bolt #5

A bloodied, gloved hand holds up a Polaroid photograph — and within that snapshot, the Inhuman king Black Bolt cradles his beloved giant bulldog Lockjaw with quiet tenderness, a striking contrast to the violence suggested by the red spattering the cover's edges. Christian Ward's cover art wraps that intimacy in vivid washes of color, making the image feel both deeply personal and genuinely unsettling. Saladin Ahmed and the artistic team of Ward and Frazer Irving have built one of Marvel's most emotionally gripping series of 2017, and this issue promises to keep that standard high.