Curse Words #16

Charles Soule and Ryan Browne's offbeat Image series reaches its sixteenth issue with a cover that crackles with raw, unsettling energy. A mustachioed man dominates the image, his face consumed by swirling blue-white magical lightning while skull-eyed visions glow across his features — and two stone hands clutching skulls loom in the foreground like a throne of dark power. Ryan Browne's linework and colors deliver something genuinely visceral here, making this 2018 issue a vivid showcase for what makes Curse Words such a distinctive corner of the Image lineup.