Capes #6

A somber mood hangs over this cover as a diverse assembly of costumed heroes — including a masked figure in blue clutching a single red rose, a young hero in yellow, a woman in pink, a patriotically-themed hero, and several others — gather around a bed of roses in what reads unmistakably as a funeral scene. Looming large above them all is a massive, grey-skinned figure whose stern expression casts a shadow over the grieving group below, with Ryan Ottley's linework giving every face a weight of genuine loss. Robert Kirkman and Mark Englert's Capes reaches its sixth issue with this quietly devastating image, and fans of the Invincible universe — as noted right on the cover — will find plenty of familiar energy here.