Blade of the Immortal #103

Hiroaki Samura's long-running Dark Horse manga series delivers a hauntingly beautiful cover with issue #103, subtitled "Pity — One Shot." A pale, reclining woman dominates the upper half of the image, her crimson-tipped fingers and dark lips lending her an air of quiet menace or deep sorrow, while a branch of vivid autumn leaves drifts through a misty gray expanse below. The contrast between that delicate foliage and the figure's stillness makes this one of the more elegantly melancholic covers in the series.