Blade of the Immortal Omnibus #9

Hiroaki Samura's breathtaking artwork is on full display in this ninth omnibus volume, rendered in his signature sepia-washed, painterly style. The cover pulls the eye upward from a worm's-eye vantage point, where a circle of hardened, scarred warriors — several bearing weapons — look down while a lone figure leaps dramatically through the air above them, and a cloaked, seated figure waits in the center below. It's a quietly ominous composition that captures the series' blend of tactical menace and fluid, almost balletic violence perfectly.