Black Magick #12

Greg Rucka and Nicola Scott's gripping supernatural series reaches its twelfth issue with a cover that stops you cold: a close-up of a dark-haired woman raising both hands toward the viewer, one eye blazing with fierce golden light while the other remains obscured. The restraint of the near-monochromatic palette makes that single burning eye all the more arresting — Scott's linework here is meticulous and quietly stunning. "Ascension I" signals a new chapter in the series, and this cover promises the tension between the human and the otherworldly is very much at the heart of what's to come.