Black Magick #13

Greg Rucka and Nicola Scott's supernatural crime series returns with this 2020 installment, kicking off "Ascension I (Part 002)." Nicola Scott's cover art is quietly unsettling — a pale, white-clad figure looms large, fingers wrapped in puppet strings connected to a dark-jacketed woman wearing a detective's badge, who walks forward seemingly unaware of the crowd of shadowy, menacing figures pressing in from the crimson background. The visual tension between the puppeteer above and the determined officer below sets a deeply compelling tone for wherever this arc is headed.