Blackbird #3

Jen Bartel's cover for Blackbird #3 commands attention with a close-up portrait of a young man whose glowing amber eyes and drifting golden feathers hint at a world where the supernatural is never far away. His wolf-emblazoned jacket and stone pendant feel like details that carry real weight, lending him an air of quiet intensity against the smoldering red-orange gradient behind him. Sam Humphries' series continues to make a strong case for itself as one of Image's more visually distinctive offerings of 2018.