Black Widow 2 #5

The penultimate chapter of Richard K. Morgan's six-part limited series finds Natasha Romanoff in a dire situation — bound tightly to a chair with rope, her red hair loose and her expression taut with barely contained defiance against a dark, shadowy background. Sean Phillips's cover work, finished with his own inks, renders her predicament with an unsettling intimacy that makes the stakes of this espionage thriller feel genuinely personal. With only one issue left after this, The Things They Say About Her is building toward something — and this image alone makes it hard to look away.