Black Bolt #[nn]

This Eisner Award-winning run from Marvel collects the critically acclaimed work of Christian Ward, whose cover immediately signals something remarkable — Black Bolt himself, bound in glowing teal chains and looming large above a surreal, Escher-like crimson prison structure floating against a vast starfield, energy radiating from his masked head in brilliant blue beams. The imagery is striking and strange in the best way, perfectly capturing a king stripped of freedom yet radiating barely contained power. G. Willow Wilson's blurb calls it "high-concept, trippy, early Gaiman-esque," and one look at Ward's otherworldly art makes that description feel entirely earned.