Clive Barker's The Great and Secret Show #12

Clive Barker's adaptation of The Great and Secret Show reaches its twelfth chapter with a cover that radiates raw, apocalyptic intensity — a powerful figure in a white t-shirt screams upward, fists clenched, as a massive fiery explosion billows behind him in shades of deep amber and churning smoke. It's a striking image that captures the grand, mythic scale Barker brings to his storytelling, rendered here with vivid, painterly craft. IDW's 2007 series has been a compelling translation of Barker's vision into sequential art, and this penultimate-feeling cover promises the tension has nowhere left to go but up.