Black Widow #18

Phil Noto's cover for issue #18 pulls you in with an almost uncomfortably close portrait of Natasha Romanoff — her sharp green eye framed by a geometric targeting reticle, her red hair filling the warm amber background, a smear of what looks like blood on her cheek. It's an intimate, quietly intense image that says everything about the kind of spy thriller Nathan Edmondson and Noto have been crafting together. "The Path" promises exactly the kind of focused, high-stakes storytelling this series does so well.