D4VE #3

Valentin Ramon's cover for this third issue pulls you straight into D4VE's strange, layered world — a robot figure with a striking red-lensed helmet dominates the foreground, surrounded by a surreal tableau of skeletal humanoid forms, fellow robots, a glowing brain on a television screen, and assorted domestic debris. The Onion A.V. Club's "Best of 2014 Selection" badge speaks to the buzz Ryan Ferrier and Ramon generated with this series, and it's easy to see why — the artwork blends the mundane and the deeply weird with real confidence. Issue three of this IDW series keeps that unsettling, imaginative energy front and center.