Black Science #23

Matteo Scalera's cover for issue #23 of Rick Remender and Moreno Dinisio's dimension-hopping series is a genuinely unsettling piece of work — a massive, clawed dark hand holds a glowing red heart aloft toward the gaping maw of a monstrous creature, while a lone hooded, armored figure below watches amid a scatter of ice and debris. The contrast between that fiery orange sky and the cold, frost-shattered ground gives Scalera's composition a vivid, otherworldly tension that's become a hallmark of this series. With a story title as emotionally charged as "You don't become a father the day your first child is born," this 2016 Image Comics chapter promises the kind of sci-fi spectacle and raw human stakes that keep Black Science so compelling.