Black Science #9

This ninth and penultimate volume of Rick Remender, Matteo Scalera, and Moreno Dinisio's dimension-hopping saga carries a title — No Authority But Yourself — that feels earned after everything this series has put its characters through. Scalera's cover art is quietly breathtaking: a lone silhouetted figure stands before a massive burning tree against a stormy night sky, while the still water below mirrors the scene with an enormous moon replacing the inferno, roots spreading where flames once rose. That elegant contrast between destruction above and something almost peaceful beneath captures the thematic tension that has made Black Science one of Image's most compelling sci-fi series of the 2010s.