Black Magick #3

The third chapter of Greg Rucka and Nicola Scott's "Awakening" arc arrives with a cover that feels genuinely hypnotic — a dark-haired woman wearing a pentagram badge stands arms outstretched before an open book draped with a pendant chain, her eyes closed as radiant light emanates from behind her within a stone archway. The cool, largely monochromatic palette punctuated by deep purple gives Nicola Scott's cover art a ceremonial weight that perfectly captures the series' tension between police procedural and witchcraft. Black Magick #3 is the kind of 2015 Image title that makes it easy to understand why readers kept coming back for more.